Amazon gets billions while state and local government budgets collapse
Government subsidies should should require strong labor standards—good jobs for local residents and excluded groups, unionized whenever possible.
Green transit and jobs bills would boost upstate recovery
By passing the Green Transit and Green Jobs bills, New York will jump-start the clean economy without leaving working families behind, write Hae-Lin Choi from CWA District One and JMA's New York Director, Miranda Nelson.
Culver City, CA stands up to Big Oil, votes to phase out drilling in largest urban oil field in U.S.
In a year of record fires, record heat, and the coronavirus, the City Council of Culver City, the site of the largest urban oil field in the U.S, voted on October 26 to phase out oil drilling.
Column: What should ‘Buy America’ look like in a post-Covid world?
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the failure of decades of US industrial practice dictated by corporations. But the post-COVID economic recovery process offers a critical opportunity to reinvigorate the industry and create millions of new industrial jobs.
Electric bus manufacturing workforce training launched in Los Angeles
Are you excited about the large-scale arrival of electric buses? Are you uplifted by the promise of cleaner air on our streets and at our kids’ schools? Do you want to help produce those electric buses? In Los Angeles, you can now learn how to do so.
LA County WDACS, Proterra, United Steelworkers Local 675, and community groups announce historic electric bus manufacturing and workforce partnerships
“Making workers and communities true partners in the transition to zero-emission transit is a way to ensure that the growing clean economy does not leave behind working families from earning high, family-sustaining wages in a safe work environment with high labor standards,” said Héctor Martin Huezo, Senior Workforce Equity Coordinator at Jobs to Move America.
Jobs firm, BYD extend benefits agreement
Electric bus manufacturer BYD Jobs to Move America’s coalition in California have renewed their community benefits agreement, reaffirming BYD’s commitment to creating pathways into good manufacturing jobs for underrepresented and underserved populations.
This Labor Day, “Black lives matter” means justice for black workers
"We must fight for an economy that works for all working people. Because there can be no economic justice without racial justice," writes JMA board member Tanya Wallace-Gobern.
Elon Musk thinks his treatment of workers is a “trade secret”
Kate Aronoff on why our wonky California legislative fight is a test of whether green jobs will be good jobs, too.
Lawmakers, environmental advocates make green transit push
The measures would require mass transit systems to purchase zero-emissions buses by 2029 and encourage them to enter into "best value" contracting framework to build the infrastructure to support the transit system.