Electrician, welder, technician. These are all jobs traditionally held by men, although that is starting to change slowly. Last week, influential women leaders led a keynote panel discussion entitled “Women Can Build: The Power of Transportation Investment” at the Women’s
Jobs to Move America researchers combed through thousands of pages of documents—legal memos, policy guidances, court briefings, and correspondence between companies and the Reagan administration—to piece together the story of how cities rose up against the federal government in joining
Jobs to Move America and community partners recently managed to ensure a project in Chicago will create good jobs and long-term economic opportunities for the community. JMA worked with the Chicago Federation of Labor, the city of Chicago and the
In a press release on Wednesday, the Jobs to Move America coalition stated that OSHA found reasonable cause to believe that Nippon Sharyo violated the whistleblower protections of the National Transit Systems Security Act.
The same week President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to roll back Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, climate activists in two cities on opposite sides of the United States were pressuring their transit agencies to think about how
Over the next decade, there will be 533,000 good middle-skill jobs available in manufacturing. Yet only 7 percent of workers in these jobs are women, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Chicago is back on track to once again manufacture rail cars for the Chicago Transit Authority. The new factory will employ around 170 workers and create almost another 130 construction jobs. CRRC has also committed to spend millions for training
In two public plazas this month, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) is using art to showcase the women who weld steel, wire trains, and paint bridges, all in honor of Women’s History Month.
When Elisangela Oliveira is high above the city painting bridges, she’s also helping to break glass ceilings. Oliveira, a bridge painter for nearly 20 years, and a host of other women who help build and shape the country’s transportation infrastructure
On International Women’s Day, a new exhibit celebrates women who help to move New Yorkers. NY1’s Jose Martinez filed the following report.
