Labor leaders hail bus maker pact to hire more women, minority workers
The deal comes as transit agencies are set to receive billions from last year’s infrastructure package to transition bus fleets to battery power
Landmark Community Benefits Agreement with New Flyer Will Lift Workers in Two States
Jobs to Move America—which calls itself a “strategic policy center”—announced a landmark labor agreement on Thursday that seeks to create better jobs, increased opportunities, and greater diversity at New Flyer, North America’s largest producer of buses and also a major
Jobs from Washington’s big infrastructure law will be ‘more fairly distributed’ thanks to this one provision, advocates say
Washington’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure law includes a provision allowing states and localities to do targeted hiring of local people and certain marginalized groups — language that’s critical, its supporters say, be“Congress, when they passed the infrastructure bill, took the really
Labor leaders hail bus maker pact to hire more women, minority workers
One of the nation’s largest bus manufacturers has agreed to hire and promote more women and racial minorities, a dealthat worker advocates say is a model for ensuring that federal funds to replace diesel buses with battery-powered buses boosts workers
Electric Bus Makers Pave the Way to Union Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers
The program at Proterra is the fruit of a community benefit agreement (CBA) between the company, United Steelworkers Local 675 and the Jobs to Move America
Pace piggybacks on Georgia e-bus order, approves Homewood facility upgrade funding
Marcos Feldman, senior researcher for Jobs to Move America, argued that, in the interest of ensuring job opportunities and economic benefits for marginalized communities, Pace should bid the project out.
This Woman’s Work
Recently, I caught up with Erica Iheme, one of the leaders at Jobs to Move America (JMA). JMA is helping to coordinate the “Bamazon” union organizing campaign alongside RWDSU. JMA is a policy center that focuses on comprehensive public spending
Amazon, union organizers face off again in Alabama
Erica Iheme, deputy director of Jobs to Move America, said her organization honed its message from last year, going beyond pay. It visited barber shops, beauty shops and other places where Black residents frequented and distributed 6,000 flyers.
In Bessemer and the South, Black Workers Hold the Key
Erica Iheme, a Birmingham-based organizer with the economic justice advocacy group Jobs to Move America, said that Amazon takes advantage of patterns set in the Jim Crow era.
Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits supports Amazon workers’ unionization drive
The union election is being rerun because a federal ruling found that Amazon’s misconduct tainted the outcome of the first election.