What’s better than clean, efficient transportation options in your neighborhood? Clean and efficient transportation options in your neighborhood that provide income and opportunities for your neighbors. Every year, local governments spend more than $5 billion to purchase the buses and
In the past 20 years, U.S. manufacturing jobs have become more insecure and precarious.
Grassroots organizations, though under resourced, have been rolling up their sleeves to ensure that a transition from dirty to clean energy sources is fair and equitable. Jobs to Move America, for example, is working with labor partners in California
If manufacturers want to recruit the most talented workers, they need to start by making conditions on the factory floor better for women.
Panelists at a May 7 session discussed the need for motivated employees in both public transit agencies and businesses — as seen by fellow workers on the shop floor — at a time when many skilled longtime workers are nearing
“By alternately pressuring and working with transportation authorities in Los Angeles, New York, and other cities, Jobs to Move America has gotten foreign manufacturers to create more than 2,500 direct factory jobs in the United States—and several thousand more indirect
In a landmark decision, a California court recently awarded thousands of dollars in legal expenses to a public interest organization that successfully fought a government contractor’s attempt to block the release of public records.
“The intention of local preference, has always been around job creation. Cities want to get as much of the money in their region to their own bottom line,” says Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors unanimously adopted a motion to establish an agency-wide Good Jobs and Equity Policy that will cover billions of dollars of taxpayer-purchased trains, buses, and equipment.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board voted to approve the purchase of 535 state-of-the-art, next-generation R211 subway cars for use on the “B Division,” which are the lettered routes, as well as the Staten Island Railway. Jobs to Move America’s Deputy
