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# Jobs to Move America

Jobs to Move America

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## Posts

- [Study: Prison labor could be suppressing Montgomery-area automotive wages](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2025/11/study-prison-labor-could-be-suppressing-montgomery-area-automotive-wages/) - Mark Miller worked a dangerous job for more than four decades, but he said he’d never gotten hurt at work until his employment with an automotive supplier in Montgomery. In two years with the company, he broke his hand and four ribs in two separate accidents. Miller said he received no safety training before being
- [America’s Fight to Create Good Jobs with Federal Money](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2024/04/americas-fight-to-create-good-jobs-with-federal-money/) - By Emily Gartenberg In the 1980s, the Reagan Administration created a set of guidelines, called the Uniform Guidance, which dictate how local and state governments can use federal grant funding. Under this guidance, cities and states are deterred from putting policies in place that create family-sustaining jobs for working people like targeted hiring, setting incentives
- [The South keeps Winning](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2023/04/the-south-keeps-winning/) - By Troy Washington Last week, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN made history by overwhelmingly voting to join the United Automobile Workers—making the shop the only unionized foreign-owned auto plant in the South. This victory comes on the heels of the exciting progress at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, where a majority
- [A Call to Action we can't Ignore](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2023/06/a-call-to-action-we-cant-ignore/) - By Troy Washington Juneteenth has been special to many Black communities before becoming a federal holiday in 2021. It marks the day June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free and had been for a while. Since I was born in Galveston, Texas—just blocks from where Union General Gordon Granger
- [Ahead of Grand Opening, Coalition Calls for Community Benefits Agreement With Lion Electric ](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2023/07/ahead-of-grand-opening-coalition-calls-for-community-benefits-agreement-with-lion-electric/) - Contact: JMA: Lauren LaBordellaborde@jobstomoveamerica.org Ahead of Grand Opening, Coalition Calls for Community Benefits Agreement With Lion Electric The Good Jobs Joliet (GJJ) coalition calls on
- [Larry Hodge](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2021/05/larry-hodge/) - Larry is a lifelong resident of Alabama where he has worked in both the manufacturing and construction industries. He has personally experienced the challenges and barriers that people of color and other marginalized workers face in the south. He has worked both union and non-union jobs in manufacturing and the construction industries. After becoming active in

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- [Home](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/) - Our mission at Jobs to Move America is bold: we seek an economy where public goods do the most public good.
- [Our Staff](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/our-staff/) - Jobs to Move America is a national organization with staff and programs in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Nebraska, New York and Washington, DC. Our work is led by teams who live and organize in the places they serve.
- [2026 Alabama Learning Trip](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2026-alabama-learning-trip/) - We invite you to join Jobs to Move America for our fourth Alabama Learning Trip, October 5th-9th, an immersive opportunity to see our work in the South up close. As the political and economic climate continues to shift, workers and communities across the region are organizing to protect their rights and livelihoods in the face
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- [Newsletters](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/newsletters/) - 2026 Newsletters Our Lawsuit Seeking Accountability From MicronThe Community Benefits Solution: We Must Act Now 2025 Newsletters The Promised Land lies in continuing the workRising from the ashesCelebrating Women in Manufacturing: Honoring the Past, Empowering the FutureBlack History Month 2025: Honoring Black Labor and Uplifting Black VoicesMaria Svart: Our New Deputy Executive Director on the
- [Contact Us](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/contact-us/) - For Press/Media InquiriesTroy Newsome For Funder/Donation InquiriesTrisha Hanudel-Lopez For Finance InquiriesJulia Portillo For General Inquiriesinfo@jobstomoveamerica.org Phone Number(424) 704-5947 Get In Touch With Our Staff Fill out the contact form below and select the staff member you are trying to reach. We will be in contact with you as soon as possible.
- [Mission, Vision, & Values](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/mission-vision-values/) - MISSION Jobs to Move America is a strategic policy center that works to transform public spending and corporate behavior using a comprehensive approach that is rooted in racial and economic justice and community organizing. We seek to advance a fair and prosperous economy with good jobs and healthier communities for all. VISION Jobs to Move
- [Get to Know JMA!](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/get-to-know-jma/) - We're hosting events in cities around the country for supporters new and old to learn more about our work. Hear from JMA leaders about our recent wins and updates on programatic work. Upcoming Events Powering Justice: JMA’s 2026 Insider Briefing You’re invited to join the JMA team for Powering Justice, an exclusive evening of cocktails,
- [Our Campaign to Win Good Jobs at Kawasaki](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/our-campaign-to-win-good-jobs-at-kawasaki/) - Kawasaki Heavy Industries — a Japanese manufacturer with railcar production facilities in Yonkers, New York and Lincoln, Nebraska — has received billions of dollars in public contracts from transit agencies across the country. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York is the company’s number one customer. In 2018, the MTA tapped Kawasaki to manufacture
- [Pressroom](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/pressroom/) - Welcome to our Pressroom! Jobs to Move America is flipping the script on the power of our public dollars to do public good. Below you'll find a selection of our latest hits -- from press releases to media highlights. Explore the Pressroom to find all our press releases and news appearances. Head over to our updates section for the inside scoop
- [Our Campaign to Win Good Jobs and Equitable Access at Micron Technology](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/micron/) - Micron Technology, Inc.— a semiconductor company headquartered in Boise, Idaho — is constructing a new facility in Central New York, outside Syracuse, and is slated to receive upwards of $20 billion in public subsidies and tax credits from federal, state, and local governments. The Central New York community has been promised that this historic investment
- [Media Inquiries](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/media-inquiries/) - Please address media/press inquiries to: Troy Newsome Assistant Director for Media tnewsome@jobstomoveamerica.org
- [2025 Jobs to Move America Imperial Valley Learning Trip](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2025-jobs-to-move-america-imperial-valley-learning-trip/) - We are excited to invite you to join Jobs to Move America on our inaugural California Imperial County Learning Trip on November 11-13! In the midst of a rapidly evolving political climate, workers and communities are organizing more than ever to protect the rights and livelihoods of working-class people against rapidly expanding corporate interests. JMA
- [Donate](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/donate/) - To donate by check, please make payment out to Jobs to Move America and mail to: Jobs to Move AmericaAttn: Kris White525 S Hewitt St. Los Angeles, CA 90013For any questions, email development@jobstomoveamerica.org.
- [Update your mailing address](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update-your-mailing-address/) - There are a lot of exciting things happening at JMA, and we want to make sure you don’t miss a thing.To ensure you continue receiving updates, exclusive news, and our latest materials, we kindly ask you to confirm or update your mailing address using the link below.
- [JMA Workforce Development Program](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/jma-workforce-development-program/) - Do you want to learn a new skill? Are you seeking a career change? Are you a veteran seeking employment? Are you at least 17 years of age? If so, Jobs to Move America’s Workforce Development Program may be right for you. What JMA Provides Serving Alabama and Mississippi, we provide no-cost trainings with stipends
- [Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/community-benefits-agreement-resource-center/) - We are at a critical moment for emerging industries—such as electric vehicles, batteries, and offshore wind manufacturing—and the U.S. is investing trillions of public dollars to build up high-road domestic manufacturing. Community benefits agreements (CBAs) provide a way for workers, families, and their communities to participate in and shape the energy transition; and industry leaders
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- [Making Federal Dollars Work for Local Communities: 2023 Northeast Regional Briefing for Elected Leaders](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2023-northeast-regional-briefing-local-opportunities/) - Join Jobs to Move America and Local Progress in a special briefing on the Local Opportunities Campaign. Learn how updating current federal grant rules can empower leaders to bring good quality jobs & equity to our communities, and how your leadership can make this a reality! Date: Wednesday, September 13 Time: 6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m. EST
- [Alabama Advocacy Trainings](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/aladvocacy/) - Join this free online training led by former Alabama State Representative Patricia Todd. You will learn how the Alabama State Legislature functions and best methods to communicate with your representatives. Our next training is on Tuesday, February 28 at 6:00pm CST. Please RSVP by filling out the form below:
- [Southern Manufacturing’s Impact on Jobs and Community](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/smwppanel/) - A Panel Discussion about Worker Perspectives & Community Voices on the Need to Improve Job Quality Date and time: Friday, 2/24/2023 from 11:00am - 1:00pm (Central Time), with networking lunch following Location: Jackson State University - College of Science, Engineering, and Technology (CSET) Auditorium (1807 John R. Lynch St, Jackson, MS 39203). Parking is available
- [Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/alabama-coalition-for-community-benefits/) - About our coalition The Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, faith, and environmental justice groups working to hold corporations that do business in the South accountable to workers and communities. What we're fighting for The Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits has supported the unionization drive of workers at
- [Making Federal Dollars Work for Local Communities: 2022 Regional Briefing for Elected Leaders Representing Los Angeles County](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/2022la/) - Making Federal Dollars Work for Local Communities: 2022 Regional Briefing for Elected Leaders Representing Los Angeles County Join Mayor Garcetti, LA Metro, and Jobs to Move America in a special briefing regarding the Local Opportunities Campaign that aims to empower state & local recipients of federal funds to bring good quality jobs & equity to
- [Electric School Buses](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/electric-school-buses/) - Millions of U.S. students rely on the nation’s nearly 500,000-strong school bus fleet to travel to and from school every day. For decades, most of these buses have been powered by diesel engines. Despite the harmful pollution these buses emit, there haven’t been viable alternatives that are significantly better for the environment. But with the
- [Building Power and Democracy in the South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/southern-donor-circle-brunch/)
- [Stay up to date with Jobs to Move America](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/get-updates/) - By signing up for our mailing list, you'll receive action alerts and updates about our fight for a fair economy. What are we organizing for? An economy that puts workers, racial justice, and climate action over corporate greed -- every time. An economy where our public dollars are always invested in a way that does the
- [Unleash the power of public dollars: Overturn the local hire ban](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/local-hire/) - Quick links: Read our press release about the campaign launch. Press release Read our report about the local hire pilot program. Report Watch our March 2 press conference and campaign launch. Press conference Across the country, cities and states are working hard to rebuild communities and recover from the devastating impacts of the pandemic on
- [Who We Work With](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/our-approach/who-we-work-with/) - We strive to build healthy, powerful coalitions that include organizations and leaders in labor, civil rights, environmental justice, and the community at-large. We believe that by working collaboratively, we can build a fair economy, participatory democracy, and a clean environment. Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits A Better BalanceThe Alabama State Conference of the NAACPAdelante Alabama
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- [What We Do](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/our-approach/what-we-do/) - Our mission is bold: we seek an economy where public goods do the most public good. Our public dollars are our most powerful tool to shape a better future for workers. Jobs to Move America combines strategic research, policy advocacy, and coalition organizing to harness the power of our public dollars to create good jobs
- [Why Public Purchasing?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/our-approach/why-public-purchasing/) - The United States is teetering on a cliff edge. Systemic racism has gone unchecked for centuries. The wealth gap is widening and communities of color are as chronically under-resourced as ever. Climate breakdown is hitting many of these same communities first and worst. Crises like the Great Recession and coronavirus pandemic have exposed how our
- [Our Work](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/our-work/)
- [Donation Confirmation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/donation-confirmation/) - Thank you for your gift! Your support will advance JMA’s work to build an inclusive democracy, equitable economy, and healthy environment that works for all communities. You will receive a receipt via email to email address provided. Please keep it for your records. Stay Connected with JMA: FacebookTwitter
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## Regions

- [Western States](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/region/western-states/) - California is the country's most populous state and the birthplace of Jobs to Move America. Our campaigns are harnessing the power of California's public dollars to advance racial, gender, and economic justice.
- [Midwest](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/region/midwest/) - We're organizing the country's heartland to lead the way on ambitious climate policy and infrastructure investments that lift up workers and communities.
- [Northeast](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/region/northeast/) - New York and New Jersey pour billions into public infrastructure -- like transit -- each year. We're fighting to ensure these public dollars build up our communities, too.
- [The South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/region/southern/) - The manufacturing industry is making a comeback in the Deep South. We're organizing to bring good jobs and real community benefits to Southern communities.
- [National](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/region/national/) - Our governments spend $2 trillion each year purchasing goods and services. We work nationally to ensure these public dollars do the most public good.

## Updates

- [Our Commitment to Holding Corporations Accountable Continues](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/our-commitment-to-holding-corporations-accountable-continues/) - “Last week, the Los Angeles court hearing our case against Hyundai and Kia granted the companies’ motion to dismiss. While the decision is disappointing, our commitment to holding multi‑billion‑dollar corporations accountable to workers and communities has not changed. Hyundai and Kia cannot be allowed to profit in California from exploitation in their U.S. supply chain
- [Juneteenth Is Our Story: Why the Fight for Justice Continues](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/juneteenth-is-our-story-why-the-fight-for-justice-continues/) - My grandparents left the South for Chicago during the Great Migration in the 1930s. They were part of a generation seeking opportunity, dignity, and freedom from the racial oppression of the South. Their journey shaped the economic opportunities my family would later have. As we celebrate Juneteenth this week, I recognize that my story is
- [Hyndai-Kia's U.S. supply chain named in "Dirty Dozen" report for dangerous and abusive working conditions](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/hyndai-kias-u-s-supply-chain-named-in-dirty-dozen-report-for-dangerous-and-abusive-working-conditions/) - We’re excited to share two major developments that show how research, organizing, and public leadership are driving real accountability for workers. Last week, the Los Angeles City Council introduced a new package of policies led by Councilmember Hugo Soto‑Martínez, after companies in Hyundai-Kia's US supply chain were cited for multiple health and safety violations, including
- [What You Need to Know About Our Lawsuit Against Hyundai-Kia](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/what-you-need-to-know-about-our-lawsuit-against-hyundai-kia/) - by Meredith Stewart, JMA Litigation Director Hyundai and Kia–two of the world’s largest auto manufacturers–brand themselves as socially and ethically responsible corporations, but as our recent lawsuit alleges, this is far from the truth. Companies in their U.S. supply chain have relied on exploited workers, including children and prisoners, in unsafe working conditions to build
- [The Supreme Court’s Decision Escalates the Attack on Immigrant Workers. We Must Respond.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/the-supreme-courts-decision-escalates-the-attack-on-immigrant-workers-we-must-respond/) - by Melanie J. Prasad Last week, we spoke out against the brutal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at the Hyundai and LG battery plant in Georgia—a devastating act that ripped nearly 500 workers from their jobs, families, and communities. These workers were building the “clean energy future,” only to be discarded through militarized enforcement
- [JMA condemns ICE raid at Georgia Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution Facility](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jma-condemns-ice-raid-at-georgia-hyundai-facility/) - Jobs to Move America condemns the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid conducted this week at the Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia. Yesterday, a reported 475 workers, hardworking parents, loving neighbors and community leaders, were snatched from their workplace by the Trump administration’s federal agents, in what the government
- [Knowledge that Powers Change: A Message from JMA's New Director of Research](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/knowledge-that-powers-change-a-message-from-jmas-new-director-of-research/) - by HeeWon Brindle-Khym At Jobs to Move America, research has always been integral to how we advance our mission. It grounds our campaigns, informs our partnerships, and strengthens our ability to hold corporations and policymakers accountable. When combined with organizing and coalition-building, research provides the evidence and direction that makes our strategies effective, rigorous and
- [As Pride Comes to a Close, Let’s Not Forget Why We Stepped Out](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/as-pride-comes-to-a-close-lets-not-forget-why-we-stepped-out/) - By: Patricia Todd, Southern Policy Manager When I first stepped into public office as Alabama’s first openly gay elected official, I carried with me the spirit of resistance that defined the Stonewall Uprising. Coming out in the state legislature wasn’t easy. I received hate mail, threats, and plenty of sideways glances from colleagues who had
- [Trump's big, ugly bill is an attack on working people](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/trumps-big-ugly-bill-is-an-attack-on-working-people/) - By: Ian Elder, National Director Last Friday, President Trump signed into law the grotesque, 1,000-page legislation known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB). We believe the government should serve the people. It should create public goods for the benefit of all, to create a fairer and better society. But instead of celebrating democracy and equality on Independence
- [Reclaiming Pride as Resistance](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/reclaiming-pride-as-resistance/) - by Melanie Jamileh Prasad, General Counsel and Director of Policy Last weekend, Los Angeles celebrated its annual Pride Parade, complete with corporate floats and rainbow-wrapped brands. But set against the terror that has been unfolding in our city, the pageantry and celebration felt disconnected and surreal. On Friday night, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set up
- [Solidarity with David Huerta and All Immigrant Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/solidarity-with-david-huerta-and-all-immigrant-workers/) - by Valerie Lizárraga I’m writing to you from heartbreak and rage–but also with a firm belief that we can and must stand up to protect our families, friends, and neighbors who are under attack by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I grew up on the eastside of Los Angeles (Tovaangar) and I still live
- [Juneteenth is a promise—we’re here to deliver! Freedom is the floor, not the ceiling](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/juneteenth-is-a-promise-were-here-to-deliver-freedom-is-the-floor-not-the-ceiling/) - By Troy Newsome, Assistant Director of Media Juneteenth is more than a moment in history. It’s a living promise—a declaration that freedom must be felt not just in body, but in opportunity. On June 19,1865, freedom from slavery finally reached Galveston, Texas. As someone born just blocks from where the news was delivered, I carry
- [Companies Should Think Twice about Rolling Back Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Face of Presidential Attacks](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/companies-should-think-twice-about-rolling-back-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-face-of-presidential-attacks/) - By Madeline JanisExecutive Director Ever since Trump’s flurry of day-one executive orders that included ending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in federal contracting, many companies have rolled back longstanding efforts to attract new suppliers, employees, and customers through diversified outreach and inclusion programs. Target, for example, announced days after Trump’s inauguration that it was rolling back a
- [Born for the Movement: from Haymarket to Haeden, the spirit lives on](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/born-for-the-movement-from-haymarket-to-haeden-the-spirit-lives-on/) - By Hailey Allen, Sr. Communications Specialist | Birmingham, Alabama Every year on May 1, people around the world honor International Workers’ Day—a day shaped by walkouts, bold demands, and the enduring call for respect on the job. But behind the protest signs and rallying cries is a more personal truth for those of us in
- [Black History Month 2025: Honoring Black Labor and Uplifting Black Voices](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/black-history-month-2025-honoring-black-labor-and-uplifting-black-voices/) - by Larry HodgeSenior Alabama Organizer As we celebrate Black History Month, we recognize that African Americans have always been on the front lines of labor struggles —whether in the factories, on the docks, in government jobs, or in domestic work. From the fight for fair wages during the civil rights movement to today’s battle for workplace safety
- [Birmingham Leverages Public Funding for the Most Public Good with Historic Local Hire Ordinance](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/birmingham-leverages-public-funding-for-the-most-public-good-with-historical-local-hire-ordinance/) - Public goods for the most public good is more than a slogan—it’s a mission and framework for how JMA builds a better world. A Local Hire Ordinance passed unanimously by the Birmingham, Alabama City Council in January is a perfect example.
- [Erica Iheme on Investing in the Future of Organizing](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/erica-iheme-on-investing-in-the-future-of-organizing/) - JMA's Organizing Director Erica Iheme is leading the charge to develop a cutting-edge training program for organizers. In a new video, she shares her vision for JMA's future. This program will equip our team with the skills and tools they need to build powerful movements for change. There are three key components: A "school of thought"
- [JMA Co-Hosts Community Benefits Agreements Webinar With The Aspen Institute](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jma-co-hosts-community-benefits-agreements-webinar-with-the-aspen-institute/) - On October 23, 2024, Jobs to Move America (JMA) co-hosted a “Community Benefits Agreements: A Tool for Creating Good Jobs” webinar with the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) as a part of the EOP’s Job Quality in Practice webinar series, which examines the strategies and approaches practitioners are using to improve job quality and
- [A New Dawn of JMA Organizing](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/a-new-dawn-of-jma-organizing/) - by Erica Iheme It has often been said that the things that get you elevated are the things that you tend to do less of when you elevate. After heavy consideration, I have decided to step away from the position of Co-Executive Director of JMA for personal reasons that I hope you can understand. I
- [Jobs to Move America files lawsuit against LA Metro alleging violations of state and federal contracting law](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jobs-to-move-america-files-lawsuit-against-la-metro-alleging-violations-of-state-and-federal-contracting-law/) - by Aesha Mahmoud This morning, Jobs to Move America filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) for violating state and federal open bidding laws in a $730 million contract awarded to Hyundai Rotem. Hyundai is currently being sued by the Department of Labor for alleged employment of children throughout
- [OMB’s Uniform Grants Guidance Updates Take Effect Today, Empowering Communities and Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/ombs-uniform-grants-guidance-updates-take-effect-today-empowering-communities-and-workers/) - by Valerie Lizárraga Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s updates to the Uniform Grants Guidance released on April 4, 2024 officially go into effect. These are some of the most substantial changes to the Uniform Grants Guidance—which determines how states, localities, tribal governments, and other federal grantees can spend federal money—in decades. A
- [Public Money Anywhere = Good Jobs and CBAs Everywhere](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/public-money-anywhere-good-jobs-and-cbas-everywhere/) - By Teto Héctor Huezo UAW's successful Stand Up Strikes lit a fire under the labor movement, moving the needle on what’s possible for workers as automakers transition to making electric vehicles. Fueled by that victory, JMA is standing alongside our UAW partners to demand a national community benefits agreement with nonunion automaker Hyundai. Last week,
- [The Intertwined Struggles of Civil Rights and Labor](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/the-intertwined-struggles-of-civil-rights-and-labor/) - By Erica Iheme Earlier this month, I was interviewed by WBHM, Birmingham’s public radio station, for a piece about the city’s role in the intertwined struggles for civil and labor rights. As the article points out, the economic justice aspects of the Civil Rights Movement are often underplayed. But as we finish Black History Month,
- [Title: Solidarity in the South: Transformative Wins for Auto Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/title-solidarity-in-the-south-transformative-wins-for-auto-workers/) - By Will Tucker It took just six weeks for the United Auto Workers (UAW) to win transformative contracts with the Big Three automakers: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. The impact on workers of all kinds, all around the country–but especially in the South–was clear and immediate. For proof, look no further than Vance, Ala., the
- [America’s Fight to Create Good Jobs with Federal Money](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/americas-fight-to-create-good-jobs-with-federal-money/) - By Emily Gartenberg In the 1980s, the Reagan Administration created a set of guidelines, called the Uniform Guidance, which dictate how local and state governments can use federal grant funding. Under this guidance, cities and states are deterred from putting policies in place that create family-sustaining jobs for working people like targeted hiring, setting incentives
- [The South Keeps Winning](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/the-south-keeps-winning/) - By Troy Washington Last week, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN made history by overwhelmingly voting to join the United Automobile Workers—making the shop the only unionized foreign-owned auto plant in the South. This victory comes on the heels of the exciting progress at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, where a majority
- [A Call to Action we Can't Ignore](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/a-call-to-action-we-cant-ignore/) - By Troy Washington Juneteenth has been special to many Black communities before becoming a federal holiday in 2021. It marks the day June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free and had been for a while. Since I was born in Galveston, Texas—just blocks from where Union General Gordon Granger
- [Southern Program 2024 Alabama Learning Trip](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/2024-alabama-learning-trip/) - Join Jobs to Move America from October 7-10th for a transformative trip through Alabama, the center of the civil rights movement and the growing Black-led worker justice movement. This is an opportunity to significantly contribute to the worker organizing and corporate accountability fight in the Deep South, and take a deeper dive into the history,
- [The South got something to say](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/the-south-got-something-to-say/) - By Erica Iheme Recently, we had the pleasure of hosting Acting Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su in Alabama as part of her Good Jobs Summer Tour. The visit came after workers at New Flyer’s Anniston, AL plant unionized with IUE-CWA and ratified its first contract. Julie Su has long been a champion of our
- [What the pundits are missing this Super Tuesday](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/what-the-pundits-are-missing-this-super-tuesday/) - The sad truth is that the punditry has all but ignored climate change and the related impacts on our economy during the primary, shirking grassroots calls for a climate debate to instead pose just a handful of insufficient, muddled climate questions.
- [Watch Our Alabama Learning Trip Recap Video](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/watch-our-alabama-learning-trip-recap-video/) - Jobs to Move America hosted a Learning Trip to Alabama for our supports to gain an understanding of the labor and civil rights movement in Birmingham and Anniston, and what is being done to create good jobs in the area. Here's a visual recap from that trip. About the Trip Join Jobs to Move America
- [New video showcases JMA's work and vision for the green economy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/new-video-showcases-jmas-work-and-vision-for-the-green-economy/) - To get a glimpse of this movement, we produced a video that shows the work we're doing from Los Angeles to Birmingham. In a little over two minutes, the video shares our vision to transform public spending in the new green economy, and the organizing we're doing to get there. You'll also see some workers who have
- [Warehouse Workers for Justice Report Uplifts Need for Good Jobs and Clean Air in Joliet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/warehouse-workers-for-justice-report-uplifts-need-for-good-jobs-and-clean-air-in-joliet/) - by Lauren LaBorde, JMA Communications Specialist This week, Warehouse Workers for Justice released its new report "For Good Jobs & Clean Air: How a Just Transition to Zero Emission Vehicles Can Transform Warehousing," which details the impact of the booming warehouse and logistics industry on Will County, Illinois (read the report here). Formerly a hub
- [On National Coming Out Day, we still have work to do to ensure LGBTQI+ people are safe at work](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/on-national-coming-out-day-we-still-have-work-to-do-to-ensure-lgbtqi-people-are-safe-at-work/) - On this National Coming Out Day, as someone who is queer, Brown, and genderqueer, I’m reflecting on the immense privilege I have to work for an organization that supports me in being my authentic self.
- [JMA's Community Benefits Agreement With New Flyer: One Year Later](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jmas-community-benefits-agreement-with-new-flyer-one-year-later/) - by Will Tucker, JMA Southern Director Earlier this month, the Jobs to Move America team in Alabama had lunch with nine New Flyer of America workers in Anniston, Ala. The workers were new to their jobs building, painting and testing electric transit buses. Most had started work within the past three months. All came from
- [Workers and kids are winning big with electric school buses–but there’s a long way to go](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/workers-and-kids-are-winning-big-with-electric-school-buses-but-theres-a-long-way-to-go/) - by Ian Elder, National Research and Policy Manager Electric school buses (ESB) have come a long way since a year ago, when we published our comprehensive report, Driving the Future. In just a year, the technology has taken off: since last spring, the number of ESBs funded, ordered or deployed in the U.S. has doubled,
- [Education Workers Deserve To Be Properly Compensated For Their Labor of Love](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/education-workers-deserve-to-be-properly-compensated-for-their-labor-of-love/) - by Martin Barrera, California Senior Workforce Equity Coordinator As a former high school teacher in Los Angeles, I have been reflecting on the ongoing strike by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99. I feel for the educators and support staff of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and
- [Creating Good Jobs Through the CHIPS and Science Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/chips-and-science-act-notice-of-funding-opportunity/) - Rewarding companies who make strong commitments around job quality; requiring them to provide detailed, publicly available data around wages and benefits; and then holding them accountable to those commitments through the contract—these are the key elements of our U.S. Employment Plan.
- [Union Provides Education and Equality for School Bus Manufacturing Worker](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/union-provides-education-and-equality-for-school-bus-manufacturing-worker/) - For Tanya Brown, a painter at electric school bus maker Thomas Built Buses in North Carolina, being in a union has helped her finish her degree and is creating equal opportunities for women in the workplace. College business courses are not typically known for teaching pro-union values. But for Tanya Brown, an assembly technician at
- [This Labor Day, thank workers by supporting the PRO Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/this-labor-day-thank-workers-by-supporting-the-pro-act/) - Labor Day is a day that celebrates workers in the U.S., and that’s more important this year than ever. Due to the ongoing pandemic, hundreds of thousands of workers have lost their jobs.
- [Let's Honor Rosa Parks by Creating Equity in Transit—For Riders and Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/lets-honor-rosa-parks-by-working-toward-transit-equity/) - This Saturday is Transit Equity Day, which takes place on Rosa Parks’ birthday to honor her historic action to demand equality for public transit riders. Parks’ refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, AL bus in 1955 and the bus boycotts that ensued lead to the landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on
- [On Anniversary of Roe, Freedom for Workers Means Reproductive Rights](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/on-anniversary-of-roe-freedom-for-workers-means-reproductive-rights/) - January 22 marks what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade—if not for the Supreme Court overturning the ruling in June, striking down the constitutional right to abortion care. As an economic justice organization, Jobs to Move America echoes the statements from labor unions and other organizations that frame reproductive healthcare as
- [Jobs to Move America announces new leadership structure and appointment](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jobs-to-move-america-announces-new-leadership-structure-and-appointment/) - by Ed Wytkind, Board Chair, Jobs to Move America On behalf of the board of directors at Jobs to Move America (JMA), I am pleased to announce the appointment of Erica Iheme, the organization’s deputy director, to the newly-created position of Co-Executive Director to join Madeline Janis, co-founder and executive director. Effective January 1, 2023,
- [LA Metro Adopts the Most Comprehensive Good Jobs Policy in Green Transit Manufacturing](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/la-metro-adopts-the-most-comprehensive-good-jobs-policy-in-green-transit-manufacturing/) - LA Metro’s Board of Directors voted to adopt the Manufacturing Careers Policy (MCP), co-written by Jobs to Move America. This policy is the most comprehensive jobs creation policy to date, and ensures accountability measures in the procurement process for green transit manufacturers who submit winning bids to supply LA Metro’s new fleet of EV buses
- [Union Gives Confidence to School Bus Manufacturing Worker About EV Transition](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/electric-school-bus-worker-story-willie-walker/) - Union Gives Confidence to School Bus Manufacturing Worker About EV Transition
- [Using Local and Economically-Targeted Hire to Promote Good Jobs Through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/using-local-and-economically-targeted-hire-to-promote-good-jobs-through-the-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act/) - by Michael Lawliss, JMA Senior Policy Coordinator We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build resilient infrastructure for the 21st century and benefit the communities that live near these projects. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), was signed into law on November 15, 2021. This federal legislation
- [Jobs to Move America Stands with Black Workers Following Racist Remarks from Los Angeles City Council President](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jobs-to-move-america-stands-with-black-workers-following-racist-remarks-from-los-angeles-city-council-president/) - By Héctor Huezo, JMA California Director On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times and Knock LA reported on leaked recordings revealing racist, anti-Black, and reprehensible remarks made by City Council President Nury Martinez in conversation with Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon, and County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera. These comments were directed at
- [Indigenous peoples must have a seat at the table in electric vehicle mining negotiations](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/indigenous-peoples-must-have-a-seat-at-the-table-in-electric-vehicle-mining-negotiations/) - By Paola Rodelas, JMA Communications Director I come from a family of miners–indigenous peoples who have lived near a gold mine in the Philippines for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. The first mining corporation was established by U.S. investors–a few years after the U.S. colonization of the Philippines–and many more international mining companies have come
- [Racism is in the Water in Jackson, But We Can't Give Up on the South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/racism-is-in-the-water-in-jackson-but-we-cant-give-up-on-the-south/) - By Angela Dawson, JMA Mississippi Community Engagement Coordinator What do Flint and Benton Harbor, MI and Jackson have in common? All three have a water crisis, all three are majority Black, all three have high poverty rates, and all three have been crippled by white flight. After Brown v. Board of Education integrated America’s schools,
- [As Extreme Weather Increases, We Must Learn Lessons From Hurricane Katrina](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/as-extreme-weather-increases-we-must-learn-lessons-from-hurricane-katrina/) - By Lauren LaBorde, JMA Communications Specialist All the recent extreme weather events communities have been experiencing both in the U.S. and internationally has me thinking about Hurricane Katrina, the 17th anniversary of which was on Aug. 23. The date is particularly important to me since I grew up in the New Orleans area, and on
- [5 Reasons to Support SB 674, California’s High Road Jobs Program](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/5-reasons-to-support-sb-674-californias-high-road-jobs-program/) - Right now, California is investing billions of dollars to purchase zero-emission transit vehicles. These new vehicles will have an enormous impact on the state's carbon footprint, creating healthier communities and cleaner air. And with the right policies, we have the opportunity to leverage this historic investment in transportation and infrastructure to support good, community sustaining
- [How to Ensure Recent Federal Investments Benefit Workers and Communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/inflation-reduction-act-chips-science-act/) - by Michael Lawliss, JMA Senior Policy Coordinator As states and cities begin to receive funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), President Biden signed off on two new laws that will continue the flow of federal funds to our communities. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors
- [Manufacturing Jobs for Women event](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/goodjobsevent/) - Para español: On July 27th, Jobs to Move America (JMA) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will host an event with the DOL Women’s Bureau National Director Wendy Chun-Hoon in Birmingham to discuss the benefits for women of new and upcoming training programs at manufacturing plants in Alabama. JMA and New Flyer, an electric
- [JMA Staff Reflects on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jma-staff-reflects-on-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade/) - June was supposed to be a month of commemorating struggles for freedom with Juneteenth and Pride. But then on the last Friday of the month, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which dialed back freedoms for women and anyone who can get pregnant. JMA is fighting for freedom for workers by giving them a
- [We Still Have Work to Do to Win True Freedom for Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/we-still-have-work-to-do-to-win-true-freedom-for-workers/) - By Erica Iheme I am a daughter of Alabama, born and raised. Before coming to JMA, I spent 17 years working as an organizer across the country before coming back home to take what I learned back to my community. I saw my work and the work of many strong leaders in Alabama culminate last
- [Solidarity with Amazon workers from the Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/solidarity-with-amazon-workers-from-the-alabama-coalition-for-community-benefits/) - "This fight is not over. The battle against Amazon has shifted the narrative for what's possible for workers here in Alabama and across the South," said the Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits.
- [Taking on COVID-19](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/taking-on-covid-19/) - A real recovery from the devastating economic and public health consequences of COVID-19 means putting people over profit, once and for all.
- [Elected Officials Must Act on Racist Violence in the U.S.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/elected-officials-must-act-on-racist-violence-in-the-u-s/) - By Melanie Jamileh Prasad, JMA Legal Director I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York and want to share some thoughts about the shooting there this weekend. I carry a strong attachment and deep feeling of home to my city. My “Buffalove,” as we call it, runs so deep I have driven everyone at
- [New York needs to Go Green](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/new-york-needs-to-go-green/) - By Dan Maloney – President, Rochester and Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation AFL-CIO In New York, we have the opportunity to tackle climate change and address the current 4.9% unemployment rate. We can build a strong future with green energy jobs. To accomplish this goal, we need a plan to manufacture and put green energy
- [This Earth Day, Let's Invest in Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/this-earth-day-lets-invest-in-workers/) - Today is Earth Day, and this year’s theme is “invest in our planet.” This call is more urgent than ever—the latest report from the group of scientists considered the international experts on climate change warns the moment is “now or never” to make the changes we need to avoid climate catastrophe. The recently passed infrastructure
- [How transit workers can succeed in our transition to a green energy future](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/how-transit-workers-can-succeed-in-our-transition-to-a-green-energy-future/) - The bipartisan infrastructure law, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), included a major investment in zero-emission buses. Transit agencies will be further incentivized to switch to these buses and help transition to a lower-carbon, more sustainable future. But without the right policies in place, we worry that workers could be left behind in this
- [JMA recommendations in White House task force report](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jma-recommendations-in-white-house-task-force-report/) - Our recommendation were included in the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment.
- [Worker Story: Daniel Cervantes](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/worker-story-daniel-cervantes/) - For Daniel Cervantes, being a role model for his three kids was important. And for years, he modeled hard work by leaving the house at 4 a.m. and coming back at around 8 p.m. Opportunities were scarce in Lancaster, so Daniel drove up to 4 hours a day, 70 miles south, looking for work in
- [Worker Story: Armando Acosta](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/worker-story-armando-acosta/) - Armando Acosta was born and raised in East LA in a poor family of 12 brothers, some of whom are currently incarcerated. He played professional softball for 15 years, but struggles with addiction that lead him to completely change his life to focus on his recovery. Today, at 51 years old, Acosta has a good
- [Local Hire Provision in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/local-hire-provision-in-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-iija/) - BIF-local-hire-languageDownload
- [How JMA is ensuring the infrastructure bill works for all of us](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/how-jma-is-ensuring-the-infrastructure-bill-works-for-all-of-us/) - Earlier this month, Congress made a historic investment in our nation’s physical infrastructure by passing the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). This legislation will help communities across the country rebuild their roads and bridges, railways, public transit systems, airports, water systems, and broadband networks, among many other projects, and promises to add
- [Virtual Event: Is a New Southern Worker Movement Possible?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/virtual-event-is-a-new-southern-worker-movement-possible/) - Watch the recording of our event from November 4 where we examine what it will take to unite labor rights and civil rights in the deep South FeaturingRandall L. Woodfin, Mayor of BirminghamSanchioni Butler, Political Campaign Organizer, MS AFL-CIOMusical guest Kibibi Jones Learn how Jobs to Move America is successfully combining research, policy and community
- [California manufacturers hit new training milestones](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/california-manufacturers-hit-new-training-milestones/) - Two electric bus manufacturers, Proterra and BYD, have made remarkable training milestones in the rush to prepare U.S. workers for California’s green economy future.
- [Jobs to Move America urges White House to repeal local hire ban to maximize benefits of infrastructure investment](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/jobs-to-move-america-urges-white-house-to-repeal-local-hire-ban-to-maximize-benefits-of-infrastructure-investment/) - As President Biden rolls out his infrastructure plan today, Jobs to Move America Executive Director Madeline Janis issued a statement urging the Biden administration to repeal the ban on local hire.
- [Solidarity with Asian American communities across the country](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/solidarity-with-asian-american-communities-across-the-country/) - Jobs to Move America grieves the lives of the eight people, including six Asian women, murdered in Atlanta this week and the thousands of Asian-Americans that have been targeted in hate incidents over the past year alone. We stand in solidarity with groups across the country demanding an end to anti-Asian hate, xenophobia and all forms of
- [To build a worker-centered economy, pass the PRO Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/to-build-a-worker-centered-economy-pass-the-pro-act/) - The PRO Act would fix these problems in federal labor law by protecting workers’ right to collective action, holding employers accountable for breaking the law, ensuring free and fair union elections, and creating a fair process for a first union contract.
- [Why we're organizing to overturn the ban on local hire](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/why-were-organizing-to-overturn-the-ban-on-local-hire/) - On March 2, our coalition of over 160 public officials, community groups, unions, advocates, and academics launched a campaign to overturn the local hire ban.
- [Transit Equity Day: Why New Jersey's public transit can't wait](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/transit-equity-day-why-new-jerseys-public-transit-cant-wait/) - For the past four years on February 4, a network of transit rider unions, community organizations, environmental groups, and labor unions have organized Transit Equity Day -- a national day of action to commemorate the birthday of Rosa Parks by declaring that public transit is a civil right. Rosa is an iconic figure of the
- [Reopening the economy makes us martyrs to economic growth](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/reopening-the-economy-makes-us-martyrs-to-economic-growth/) - If our leaders valued human life in the same way they value corporate growth, we would have been able to control losses from the pandemic and survive lockdown.
- [How New York can lead on climate action, good jobs, and pandemic recovery](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/how-new-york-can-lead-on-climate-action-good-jobs-and-pandemic-recovery/) - With Covid-19 cases soaring and many still struggling to make ends meet, New York needs to take swift and long-term action to put the health and safety of workers and communities over corporate profit.
- [Black Lives Matter: Solidarity with racial justice protesters across the country](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/black-lives-matter-solidarity-with-racial-justice-protesters-across-the-country/) - Jobs to Move America stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters demanding racial justice across the country.
- [Take action: Demand public accountability in California](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/take-action-demand-public-accountability-in-california/) - California needs to pass SB749 to hold companies accountable to their promises on job creation — and get the most out of the state's economic recovery.
- [Pandemic, hurricanes, wildfires: Why we need worker-centered climate policy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/pandemic-hurricanes-wildfires-why-we-need-worker-centered-climate-policy/) - This Climate Week, we need to turn the tide on an economy that puts profit over people and the planet. To make that happen, we must make sure that every single public dollar invested in the economy aids in the creation of millions of good, union jobs and in the building of climate-safe communities.
- [Policy for the people: A teach-in about our good jobs policy at the Chicago Transit Authority](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/policy-for-the-people-a-webinar-about-our-good-jobs-policy-at-the-chicago-transit-authority/) - There is no better time than now to ensure that every public dollar we spend creates as many good jobs as possible for working people in Chicago and across the U.S., especially for those who have faced the most barriers to employment.
- [Column: What should ‘Buy America’ look like in a post-covid world?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/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.
- [Let's get to work](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/lets-get-to-work/) - Now is our time to put people power, workers, and racial justice at the core of our new government’s agenda.
- [Tribute to Larry Willis](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/tribute-to-larry-willis/) - Working people lost a long time friend and warrior last Sunday with the death of Larry Willis, the President of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO (TTD), one of the organizations that helped to found JMA.
- [Bringing Green Transit, Green Jobs to New York](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/bringing-green-transit-green-jobs-to-new-york/) - New Yorkers need long-term, systematic solutions that spur a Covid-19 recovery, invest in racial justice, and combat the climate crisis. One such solution is on its way in the form of a legislative package called Green Transit, Green Jobs.
- [Recovery from COVID-19? Not without real public oversight](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/california-wont-recover-from-covid-19-without-accountability/) - California lawmakers will soon oversee billions of stimulus dollars and pass a state-level recovery package. But a loophole in the state’s public records law is preventing workers and communities from real recovery.
- [Good jobs can break the crisis-recovery cycle](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/good-jobs-can-break-the-crisis-recovery-cycle/) - The bailout after the Great Recession led to a proliferation of low-quality, gig economy jobs. To recover from COVID-19, we can’t repeat the same mistakes.
- [John Porcari: For real recovery, let’s rethink infrastructure spending](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/john-porcari-for-real-recovery-lets-rethink-infrastructure-spending/) - Done right, infrastructure stimulus presents opportunities to build stronger, fairer, and more resilient communities, writes former Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari.
- [Take to the digital streets for Earth Day](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/take-to-the-digital-streets-for-earth-day/) - If there was ever a time to come together to turn the tide on an economy that puts profits over people and the planet, it is now.
- [Legal, but despicable: Employers looking to cash in on stimulus checks](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/legal-but-despicable-employers-looking-to-cash-in-on-stimulus-checks/) - Corporate employers are pursuing nefarious tactics to cash in on the stimulus checks people receive from the federal government by docking workers’ pay.
- [Corporate giveaways gutted the South’s safety net, recovering from COVID-19 requires rebuilding it](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/corporate-giveaways-gutted-the-souths-safety-net-recovering-from-covid-19-requires-rebuilding-it/) - Alabama gives away billions of public dollars to corporations, often with no strings attached. Our new research-action program is organizing for a better deal for Southern workers and communities.
- [Realizing democracy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/realizing-democracy/) - We don't need to restore democracy -- we need to realize it.
- [Policy for the Public! Community Forums](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/policy-for-the-public-community-forums/) - We believe that people -- CTA riders and Chicagoans -- should have a direct say in how our public dollars are used to invest in public goods like transit.
- [Column: Public officials should say 'no' to economic incentives that don't advance the public good](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/column-public-officials-should-say-no-to-economic-incentives-that-dont-advance-the-public-good/) - Across the United States, enormous public resources are given to manufacturing companies that often make grand promises but actually eliminate or undercut good American jobs.
- [Column: Manufacturers have a recruiting problem. So why aren't they hiring more women?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/manufacturers-have-a-recruiting-problem-so-why-arent-they-hiring-more-women/) - Despite the fact that women represent 51.4 percent of adults in the U.S., they hold only seven percent of middle-skilled manufacturing jobs.
- [Column: What is a good economic development deal? Not the New York Amazon one.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/what-is-a-good-economic-development-deal-not-the-new-york-amazon-one/) - All of this soul searching by New Yorkers brings up a bigger question for the rest of the country: what makes a taxpayer-supported economic deal “good?”
- [Column: A Green New Deal worth taking](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/a-green-new-deal-worth-taking-how-to-advance-inclusion-through-clean-energy-jobs/) - The Green New Deal is dominating the headlines, but what does this really mean for workers? A new report offers some important insights.
- [Column: A challenge to American business, fight for infrastructure spending, or suffer the consequences](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/a-challenge-to-american-business-fight-for-infrastructure-spending-or-suffer-the-consequences/) - With a $2 trillion infrastructure package on the line, business leaders need to step up and fight for the common good in the form of public infrastructure spending -- or suffer the consequences.
- [Column: Let's electrify public buses without throwing workers under the bus](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/lets-electrify-public-buses-without-throwing-workers-under-the-bus/) - A large-scale transition to electric buses is a logical way to meet these emissions targets and clean our air. Now it’s time to get serious about making that transition work for everyone.
- [Column: 'American Factory' tells an all too familiar story](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/american-factory-tells-an-all-too-familiar-story/) - Netflix is airing a new documentary, “American Factory,” which tells an important and powerful story. Spoiler alert: the ending is not a triumphant one for the workers. But better endings do, in fact, exist.
- [Building a more inclusive climate justice movement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/building-a-more-inclusive-climate-justice-movement/) - How do we confront the social harms experienced by marginalized workers and collaborate towards a Green New Deal?
- [Welcome to our new website!](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/our-new-website/) - This year is shaping up to be a big one, from the presidential election to a national climate justice movement. We're ahead of the curve with a new website and visual identity.
- [Fear on the factory floor is bad for business](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/fear-on-the-factory-floor-is-bad-for-business/) - In the past 20 years, U.S. manufacturing jobs have become more insecure and precarious.
- [Congress takes a first step to give second chances, manufacturers should follow](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/congress-takes-a-first-step-to-give-second-chances-manufacturers-should-follow/) - While many consider the First Step Act to be just that -- a first step -- the bill may also contain important lessons for manufacturers looking to solve the sector’s ongoing recruitment crisis.
- [Celebrating Black leaders in labor and transportation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/celebrating-black-leaders-in-labor-and-transportation/) - This Black History Month, we are profiling a group of Black trade unionists, civil rights leaders, workers, and leaders in transportation.
- [Two women’s visions of diversity, equity, and inclusion in infrastructure](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/two-womens-visions-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-infrastructure/) - Listen to this podcast with two social justice leaders about the struggle for gender justice in the transportation and infrastructure sectors.
- [How to operationalize a just transition](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/how-to-operationalize-a-just-transition/) - We already have a strong policy mechanism — public purchasing — that can deliver on core aspects of Green New Deal and lift up working people across the country.
- [A climate-safe future is a good jobs future](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/a-climate-safe-future-is-a-good-jobs-future/) - We’re celebrating some developments in the fight for climate justice — ones that prove that real solutions to the climate crisis are ones that lift up workers, fight racial injustice, and contribute to building a better society.
- [Creating good jobs as California transitions to electric buses](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/creating-good-jobs-as-california-transitions-to-electric-buses/) - The transition to a clean, equitable economy that works for everyone starts in California, as recent efforts across the state show.
- [This California bill is a win for communities and transparency](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/update/this-california-bill-is-a-win-for-communities-and-transparency/) - If Amazon came to your city promising to create 50,000 jobs in exchange for over a billion dollars in dollars in tax credits and grants, could you easily access records verifying the existence of those jobs?

## Resources

- [Be a Good Neighbor, Micron: Creating Enforceable Commitments for Central New York](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/be-a-good-neighbor-micron-creating-enforceable-commitments-for-central-new-york/) - Micron Technology is coming to Central New York and is scheduled to receive upwards of $20 billion in public subsidies and tax credits from federal, state, and local governments. Micron’s arrival has been touted as an economic boon for upstate New York with the promise of thousands of good jobs, community investments, and environmentally sustainable
- [Data for Progress Poll of Onondaga County](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/data-for-progress-poll-of-onondaga-county/) - A new poll shows broad support among Onondaga County voters for enforceable commitments from Micron Technology as the company builds its chipmaking complex in Clay. The survey, conducted by Data for Progress and commissioned by Jobs to Move America and the Urban Jobs Task Force of Syracuse, polled 624 registered voters in Onondaga County about
- [Letter from Los Angeles Coalition to FIFA Head of Human Rights](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/letter-from-los-angeles-coalition-to-fifa-head-of-human-rights/) - Letter from Los Angeles Coalition to FIFA Head of Human RightsDownload
- [Letter from Los Angeles Coalition to LA Sports and Entertainment Commission](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/letter-from-los-angeles-coalition-to-la-sports-and-entertainment-commission/) - Letter from Los Angeles Coalition to LA Sports and Entertainment CommissionDownload
- [The Social Impact Model for CBAs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/the-social-impact-model-for-cbas/) - Workers and residents advocate for community benefits agreements (CBAs) to secure a seat at the table and ensure public planning, procurement, and development processes guarantee community benefits. CBAs counter systemic harms and inequities and promote more equitable economic development. Jobs to Move America’s (JMA) Jay Mehta Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center developed the social impact
- [JMA Lawsuit Against Hyundai-Kia](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/jma-lawsuit-against-hyundai-kia/) - Jobs to Move America filed a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia for engaging in unconscionable labor practices while falsely certifying to California state and local governments that their vehicles are manufactured in compliance with state and federal law. The lawsuit alleges violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law and is filed against Hyundai Motor America, Inc. (“HMA”),
- [The Impact of Incarcerated Labor in Hyundai’s U.S. Supply Chain](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/the-impact-of-incarcerated-labor-in-hyundais-u-s-supply-chain/) - This pioneering study from Columbia Labor Lab provides a rigorous, large-scale statistical analysis of the economic impact of prison labor in driving wage suppression in Hyundai/Kia’s supply chain. Drawing on an original survey of more than 600 workers, combined with an analysis of government data and extensive public records collected through a two-year collaboration with
- [Off the Rails: Inequality, Insecurity, and Unsafe Conditions at Kawasaki's U.S. Manufacturing Facilities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/kawasaki-report/) - A newly released report from Jobs to Move America and Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute reveals troubling findings about working conditions at MTA contractor Kawasaki’s railcar manufacturing facilities in New York and Nebraska. Citing low pay, hazardous conditions and widespread experience of discrimination reported by workers, a coalition of NY and Nebraska groups are calling
- [A Case Study of the New Flyer of America Inc. Community Benefits Agreement: Lessons Learned in the Bus Manufacturing Industry](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/new-flyer-cba-case-study/) - Community benefits agreements, once primarily used for real estate development projects, are increasingly used in the manufacturing space as a tool to ensure that public investments yield measurable results for the public. The case study by Athena Nicole Last, PhD, Senior Research Fellow for the Jay Mehta Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center, focuses on the
- [Community Benefits Agreements](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/community-benefits-agreements/) - Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are legally enforceable agreements between private companies and coalitions of community and labor groups that are used to secure a wide range of job standards and equity measures.
- [Local Opportunities Coalition Comment in Response to Proposed Updates to Uniform Guidance](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/local-opportunities-coalition-comment-in-response-to-proposed-updates-to-uniform-guidance/) - The Local Opportunities Coalition, alongside supporting partner organizations, constitute 148 organizations from across the country who submitted comments regarding proposed updates to federal grant rules—known as the Uniform Guidance—that dictate how states and localities can spend federal money. Since the 1980s, the OMB's Uniform Guidance has made it difficult for states and localities to attach
- [Webinar: Reimagining Procurement Law to Maximize State & Local Benefits of Infrastructure Investments](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/webinar-reimagining-procurement-law-to-maximize-state-local-benefits-of-infrastructure-investments/) - On November 8, 2023, Jobs to Move America and the UCLA Law Review presented “Preemption Through Procurement” a webinar discussing the evolution and impact of a long standing legal misinterpretation of “competition” in federal procurement law, which has prevented state and local governments from maximizing the benefits of federal investments. The webinar offered a deeper exploration
- [Local Opportunities Campaign Summer 2023 Congressional Letter](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/local-opportunities-campaign-summer-2023-congressional-letter/) - Last week, a letter signed by 61 Members of Congress was sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in support of the Local Opportunities Campaign efforts to update current federal grant regulations, which are known as the Uniform Guidance. The letter was led by Representative Greg Casar and Senator Tammy Duckworth, and encourages
- [Report: Job Quality and Community Well-Being in Mississippi and Alabama’s Manufacturing Facilities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/job-quality-and-community-well-being-in-mississippi-and-alabamas-manufacturing-facilities/) - Manufacturing is big business in the South. Lured by generous tax incentives, global companies like Mercedes, Boeing, Nissan and more have set up shop in Alabama and Mississippi. But what's the quality of these jobs these major companies are creating with residents' tax dollars?
- [Coalition Letter on proposed memorandum of understanding (MOU) between EPA and Department of Labor](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/coalition-letter-proposed-memorandum-of-understanding-mou-between-epa-and-the-department-of-labor/) - The letter from 26 labor, environmental, and civic organizations, including Jobs to Move America, encouraged the EPA to negotiate a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Labor. On July 14, the DOL announced the signing of a MOU with both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior. Coalition-Letter-on-EPA-DOL-MOU_2023-2Download
- [Harnessing the Power of Procurement: Issues, Considerations, and Best Practices to Advance Equity in the Contracting of PublicGoods and Services](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/harnessing-the-power-of-procurement-issues-considerations-and-best-practices-to-advance-equity-in-the-contracting-of-publicgoods-and-services/) - The report from In the Public Interest and Local Progress mentions JMA's U.S. Employment Plan as a way to weave equity into the procurement process. Harnassing-the-Power-of-Procurement-Report-July-2023Download
- [Electrify NY Green Transit, Green Jobs Press Event](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/electrify-ny-green-transit-green-jobs-press-event/) - Elected officials, advocates and labor leaders held a Zoom event on August 31, 2023 to urge Gov. Hochul to add the comprehensive Green Transit, Green Jobs Bill to the executive budget. Speakers: Jay Mehta, Northeast Director at Jobs to Move America Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz, District 81 Assemblyman Steven Otis, District 91 Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, District
- [Project Labor Agreement Resource Guide](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/project-labor-agreement-resource-guide/) - JMA's community benefits agreement with New Flyer is mentioned in the Department of Labor's Project Labor, Community Workforce, and Community Benefits Agreements Resource Guide.
- [Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/primer-green-industrial-strategy-for-just-transitions/) - The Climate + Community Project's report mentions JMA's U.S. Employment Plan as model legislation to leverage government purchasing power to support the development of a high-road electric vehicle manufacturing industry.
- [Southern Manufacturing's Impact on Jobs and Community report presentation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/southern-manufacturings-impact-on-jobs-and-community-report-presentation/) - A summary of the report on manufacturing jobs in Mississippi and Alabama.
- [Our CBA with electric bus builder New Flyer](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/our-cba-with-electric-bus-builder-new-flyer/) - Our coalition in Alabama and New Flyer, the largest electric bus manufacturer in North America, signed our Community Benefits Agreement on May 24, 2022. This is our first multi-state agreement, impacting New Flyer facilities in Anniston, AL and Ontario, CA. It supports the creation of robust manufacturing jobs through investments in workforce development and training
- [Local Opportunities Coalition comment in response to Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/local-opportunities-coalition-comment-in-response-to-office-of-management-and-budgets-request-for-information/) - The Local Opportunities Coalition and supporting partners wrote a comment in response to the Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information on how the Uniform Guidance can be updated or revised to give state and local recipients of federal financial assistance more tools to create good jobs and promote greater racial and gender equity
- [Local and Economically-Targeted Hire Brochure](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/local-and-economically-targeted-hire-brochure/) - The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will bring $1.2 trillion to states and cities over the next 5 years for new and existing infrastructure–a once in a generation opportunity. For the first time, local and economically targeted hire on transportation projects is allowed without prior approval. This printable brochure details how communities can take advantage
- [Alabama Team Fact Sheet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/alabama-team-fact-sheet/) - Our coalition in Alabama and New Flyer, the largest electric bus manufacturer in North America, signed our Community Benefits Agreement on May 24, 2022. This is our first multi-state agreement, impacting New Flyer facilities in Anniston, AL and Ontario, CA. It supports the creation of robust manufacturing jobs through investments in workforce development and training
- [League of Women Voters Alabama: Civic Engagement and Advocacy Training](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/league-of-women-voters-alabama-civic-engagement-and-advocacy-training/) - JMA's Southern Policy Manager Patricia Todd spoke at the training.
- [Diversity for Hire: Astroturfing, New Flyer, and the Transportation Diversity Council](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/diversity-for-hire-astroturfing-new-flyer-and-the-transportation-diversity-council-2/) - How New Flyer and the Transportation Diversity Council are “astroturfing” worker and community demands for racial and economic justice.
- [Fact Sheet: Empowering Cities and States: Making Federal Funds Work for Our Communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/fact-sheet-empowering-cities-and-states-making-federal-funds-work-for-our-communities/) - Currently, a set of decades-old federal rules (known as the Uniform Guidance) impede cities and states from using innovative programs in the procurement process that can amplify the benefit of federal funds for communities. The procurement process can be a powerful tool to address historic inequities and uplift millions of struggling people—particularly people of color—but
- [Report: Using Local and Economically-Targeted Hire to Promote Good Jobs Through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/local-hire-guide/) - The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), was signed into law on November 15, 2021. This federal legislation will bring $1.2 trillion to states and cities over the next 5 years to repair and build roads and bridges, public transportation, the broadband network, and water infrastructure, among
- ["Good Jobs: Making the Most of Infrastructure Investments" Panel](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/good-jobs-making-the-most-of-infrastructure-investments-panel/) - New America hosted the panel on Oct. 24 to discuss the importance of using recent federal investments to create good jobs. JMA's National Director, Miranda Nelson, was on the panel. Watch it below.
- [Taking the High Road to Cleaner Air for Kids and Communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/taking-the-high-road-to-cleaner-air-for-kids-and-communities/) - Local Progress and Jobs to Move America co-authored a memo on how to use high-road procurement policy to clean our air and create good jobs with electric vehicles.
- [Pathways to an Equitable and Just Energy Transition: Jobs and Workforce Development workshop](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/pathways-to-an-equitable-and-just-energy-transition-jobs-and-workforce-development-workshop/) - JMA Executive Director spoke on a panel about jobs and workforce development in The National Academies' Pathways to an Equitable and Just Energy Transition workshop. Watch the session below: Jobs and Workforce Development Session from The National Academies on Vimeo.
- [SB 674: California's High-Road Jobs Program](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/california-sb-674/) - As the country recovers from the pandemic and works to fight the worst of the climate crisis, investments in infrastructure and clean transit will be key to stimulating local economies. And thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA, or the infrastructure bill) and the Inflation Reduction Act, federal dollars will be flowing to
- [Ban Secret Deals: How to Take On the Economic Development Subsidy Machine](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/ban-secret-deals-how-to-take-on-the-economic-development-subsidy-machine/) - JMA Southern Policy Manager Patricia Todd appeared at Ban Secret Deals' online event, How to Take On the Economic Development Subsidy Machine. Watch it below:
- [Webinar: Community Benefits Agreements (CBA) 101](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/webinar-community-benefits-agreements-cba-101/) - Melanie J. Prasad, JMA's Legal Director, spoke at "Community Benefits Agreements (CBA) 101” hosted by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of the Secretary in collaboration with the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity on June 24, 2022. The goal of the webinar is to familiarize all participants with CBAs, especially considering the recently passed
- [LRAN Conference 2022: Building Power for Black and Brown Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/lran-conference-2022-building-power-for-black-and-brown-workers/) - JMA's Mississippi Community Engagement Coordinator Angela Dawson and Southern Policy Manager Patricia Todd spoke at the 2022 Labor Research & Action Network Conference on June 21-22. Watch the video here:
- [Webinar: Using Federal Funds to Create Local Infrastructure Jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/webinar-using-federal-funds-to-create-local-infrastructure-jobs/) - On June 14, 2022, Jobs to Move America partnered with the National League of Cities to host a webinar on how elected and agency officials around the country can create good jobs for their residents using local and targeted hiring policies. The call covered the history of local and targeted hiring programs, what has changed for cities
- [Webinar: Leveraging Federal Infrastructure Dollars for Good Jobs in Communities that Need them Most](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/webinar-leveraging-federal-infrastructure-dollars-for-good-jobs-in-communities-that-need-them-most/) - On May 13, 2022, Jobs to Move America partnered with the EARN Network to host an event on local and targeted hiring practices. The webinar, which also featured speakers from LA Metro and Stand Up Nashville, discussed the historical and legal background of local and targeted hire policies, what changed under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and
- [Driving the Future: How to Electrify our School Buses and Center Kids, Communities, and Workers in the Transition](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/driving-the-future-how-to-electrify-our-school-buses-and-center-kids-communities-and-workers-in-the-transition/) - This represents a trailblazing effort to document the opportunity of school bus electrification in all its complexity.
- [About JMA factsheet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/about-jma-factsheet/) - This factsheet outlines JMA's vision, what we're doing to get there, and who we work with.
- [Providing Training for Zero Emission Buses: Recommended Expanded RFP Language](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/providing-training-for-zero-emission-buses-recommended-expanded-rfp-language/) - JMA released a report with The International Transportation Learning Center (ITLC) to assist public transit agencies in meeting the requirements in the bipartisan infrastructure bill to train workers in the operations and maintenance of zero emissions buses (ZEBs). In the report, “Providing Training for Zero Emission Buses: Recommended Expanded RFP Language,” agencies are provided language
- [Lift the ban on local hire campaign factsheet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/lift-the-ban-on-local-hire-campaign-factsheet/) - This factsheet outlines JMA's work on our campaign to lift the ban on local hire.
- [How much would it cost to electrify the nation's school buses?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/how-much-would-it-cost-to-electrify-half-the-nations-school-buses/) - To electrify half of the nation's 500,000 fossil-fuel-powered school buses, it would cost approximately $30 billion.
- [Letter to OMB on Uniform Guidance Updates - April 2022](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/letter-to-omb-on-uniform-guidance-updates_april-2022/) - Representative Bass, Senator Gillibrand, and Senator Duckworth led a letter signed by 73 of their Congressional colleagues in support of Jobs to Move America’s local hire campaign
- [Our CBA with electric bus builder Proterra](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/our-cba-with-electric-bus-builder-proterra/) - In December 2020, Jobs to Move America signed our third Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) with electric bus manufacturer Proterra and United Steelworkers Local 675 (USW 675).
- [BYD Apprenticeship Readiness Training](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/byd-apprenticeship-readiness-training/) - This pre-apprenticeship program will train people with systemic barriers to employment for clean, union jobs in the manufacturing industry.
- [U.S. Employment Plan](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/u-s-employment-plan-2/) - The U.S. Employment Plan (USEP) is our customizable, federally-approved policy tool that builds good jobs and equity into the public purchasing process.
- [JMA Illinois factsheet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/jma-illinois-team-factsheet/) - This factsheet outlines the work of JMA's Illinois team.
- [Our CBA with railcar  manufacturer CRRC](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/our-cba-with-railcar-manufacturer-crrc/) - For the first time in 50 years, Chicago is manufacturing railcars. Our CBA with manufacturer CRRC will create good jobs for south side residents facing barriers to employment.
- [National program factsheet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/national-program-factsheet/) - This factsheet outlines Jobs to Move America's work at the national level.
- [Toward a New Procurement Law: Reclaiming Competition for the Common Good](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/toward-a-new-procurement-law-reclaiming-competition-for-the-common-good/) - About the panelPanelists presented a groundbreaking new analysis of federal procurement law to reveal how regulatory changes can transform the U.S. economy by directing federal resources for physical, social and climate-related infrastructure to rebuild high-road American businesses and create good jobs for all. Panelists traced the history of procurement law to expose how the Reagan administration and
- [The Hidden Costs of Alabama’s Tax Incentives](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/the-hidden-costs-of-alabamas-tax-incentives/) - Between 1993 and 2020, Alabama gave away $4 billion in tax incentives to corporations like Amazon, Mercedes, Toyota and Google to incentivize job creation. But those giveaways were made with little to no transparency and accountability—and with often questionable return on investment for Alabama taxpayers. Meanwhile, Alabama’s incredibly low tax collection rates each year impact
- [JMA New York team factsheet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/jma-new-york-team-factsheet/) - This factsheet outline's the work of JMA's New York team.
- [What is a CBA? factsheet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/what-is-a-cba-factsheet/) - This fact sheet explains the basics of a CBA and our work to win them.
- [JMA California team handout](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/jma-california-team-handout/) - This factsheet outlines the work of JMA's California team.
- [Climate and Community Investment Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/climate-and-community-investment-act/) - Jobs to Move America is fighting alongside the NY Renews coalition to pass the Climate and Community Investment Act (CCIA), which would invest $15 billion in new green infrastructure.
- [Worker-centered state climate policy in Illinois](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/worker-centered-state-climate-policy-in-illinois/) - Illinois is poised to pass comprehensive energy legislation in the upcoming 2021 session. Our Illinois team is organizing with environmental and labor coalitions to propose worker-centered policies that would ensure an equitable transition to 100% clean energy and transition the state's public vehicle fleets.
- [Clean Buses for New York Kids](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/clean-buses-for-new-york-kids/) - A report with policy recommendations for how New York can harness the transition to electric school buses to create healthier communities, good jobs, and clean rides for kids.
- [Green Transit, Green Jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/green-transit-green-jobs/) - This legislative package would electrify New York's public bus systems and create good, clean jobs.
- [Analysis of USDOT Local Labor Hiring Pilot: Local hire increases opportunities for disadvantaged workers, strengthens local economies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/analysis-of-usdot-local-labor-hiring-pilot-local-hire-increases-opportunities-for-disadvantaged-workers-strengthens-local-economies/) - This report from Jobs to Move America demonstrates that the lifting of a Reagan-era regulation prohibiting cities and states from using local hire policies in federally-funded construction projects would create stronger local economies, advance racial equity, and increase the ways that cities and states can create good jobs while building and repairing infrastructure.
- [Alabama A&M: Are good jobs possible in the deep South?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/are-good-jobs-possible-in-the-deep-south/) - This report, by Dr. Emily Erickson at Alabama A&M University, takes an in-depth look at the costs and benefits of the manufacturing industry’s growth by surveying workers across one city and residents living in the shadows of large manufacturing plants in Alabama.
- [Accelerator for America: Maximizing Investment for Job and Small Business Growth](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/accelerator-for-america-maximizing-investment-for-job-and-small-business-growth/) - Local officials across the country are contending with how to build a sustained recovery from the coronavirus pandemic that includes the entire community, including how to get residents back to work into well-paying jobs.
- [Contracting Careers Opportunity Policy Ordinance at CTA](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/contracting-careers-opportunity-policy-ordinance-at-cta/) - CTA will be the second transit agency nationally and the largest agency to apply our signature good jobs policy, the USEP, to its major procurements.
- [Electric vehicles should be a win for American workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/electric-vehicles-should-be-a-win-for-american-workers/) - This report from the Center for American Progress highlights the U.S. Employment Plan, our cornerstone good jobs and equity policy, as a key tool to create a good jobs future for the United States.
- [Good Jobs Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/good-jobs/) - We start from one core belief: that public goods should create the most public good. In practice, this means that the billions of public dollars our government spends every year to invest in public goods like transit, infrastructure, education, and more should create good jobs, advance racial and gender equity, and tackle the climate crisis.
- [Sunshine in California Public Contracts](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/sunshine-in-california-public-contracts/) - We're fighting to bring transparency to public contracts in California.
- [Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th Century Battle Over South African Apartheid and Lessons For The Trump Era](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/reagan-vs-cities-the-20th-century-battle-over-south-african-apartheid-and-lessons-for-the-trump-era/) - By the 1980s, the apartheid political system in South Africa and its brutal oppression of people of color had become increasingly shocking to the world. Sustained global opposition resulted in the system’s collapse by the beginning of the next decade. In the United States, anti-apartheid efforts pitted community leaders, states, and cities against the federal
- [Climate Smart Ports Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/climate-smart-ports-act/) - The legislation would green the country's ports, fight climate change, and create good green jobs.
- [Our CBA with electric bus builder BYD](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/community-benefits-agreement-with-byd/) - This landmark CBA with electric bus manufacturer BYD led to the country's first electric bus apprenticeship program.
- [Workforce Equity Programs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/workforce-equity-programs/) - Jobs to Move America is working across the country to develop apprenticeship programs and job pipelines that will ensure people who have historically been denied access to manufacturing careers have the necessary skills to obtain good, family-sustaining manufacturing jobs.
- [Climate Justice Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/climate-justice-policies/) - We need to transition to a clean economy that runs on renewable energy with good union jobs at its core.
- [Transforming Transit, Realizing Opportunity](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/transforming-transit-realizing-opportunity/) - Through economic modeling and dozens of interviews, this report offers policy recommendations to enable agencies to center community health, climate solutions, and good job creation in their transition to electric buses.
- [New York MTA Electric Bus Transition](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/new-york-mta-electric-bus-transition/) - The ElectrifyNY coalition pushed the largest transit agency in the country to commit to electrifying its entire bus fleet.
- [Chicago Ready for 100](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/chicago-ready-for-100/) - Chicago is transitioning to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030 -- to get there, the city has also planned to create good jobs.
- [Chicago Good Jobs Pipeline](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/chicago-good-jobs-pipeline/) - Our community-labor coalition is developing a jobs pipeline to train Chicagoans facing barriers to employment for jobs at CRRC, a railcar manufacturer in Chicago.
- [Good Jobs through LA Metro's purchasing process](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/good-jobs-at-la-metro/) - In 2018, LA Metro committed to creating tens of thousands of good manufacturing jobs by adopting our good jobs and equity policy.
- [Manufacturing Careers Policy at the MTA](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/manufacturing-careers-policy-at-the-mta/) - We’re advocating for a good jobs and equity policy at the nation's largest transportation agency: New York's MTA.
- [Good Jobs through LA DOT's purchasing process](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/good-jobs-through-la-dots-purchasing-process/) - In 2017, the LA Department of Transportation committed to applying our signature good jobs and equity policy to all future purchases of clean transit equipment.
- [Build Local, Hire Local](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/build-local-hire-local/) - The Build Local, Hire Local bill contains a comprehensive set of reforms to raise wages and labor standards, strengthen unions, invest in American manufacturing, create new opportunities for high-quality jobs, and strengthen communities.
- [Comments on U.S. Department of Transportation Notice of Proposed Rulemaking DOT OST-2015-0013-0002](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/comments-on-u-s-department-of-transportation-notice-of-proposed-rulemaking-dot-ost-2015-0013-0002/) - In 2015, JMA and 39 organizations submitted this letter to then Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, about strengthening geographic-based hiring preferences in federal transit awards related to equipment procurement.
- [Transparency and Sunshine Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/transparency-and-sunshine-policies/) - Our public dollars are the most powerful tool we wield to shape a better, healthier, just future. Which is why transparency and accountability around how we spend our public dollars is critical. Over the past twenty years, more governments have started to ask the companies bidding for public dollars to commit to creating good jobs
- [Los Angeles DOT Electric Bus Transition](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/los-angeles-dot-electric-bus-transition/) - The Los Angeles Department of Transportation became the the third largest transit agency in the country to commit to all-electric buses by 2030 in 2017. As part of the Los Angeles County Electric Bus and Truck Coalition, Jobs to Move America joined groups such as SouthBay 350, Environment CA, EarthJustice, IBEW Local 11, Food and
- [LA Metro Zero-Emissions Bus Transition](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/la-metro-zero-emissions-bus-transition/) - In 2017, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) committed to transitioning its entire bus fleet -- over 2,200 buses -- to zero emissions technology by 2030. This transition will help improve air quality, fight climate change, and advance equity. By mandating that Jobs to Move America's signature good jobs policy, the U.S.
- [CARB Innovative Clean Transit Rule](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/carb-innovative-clean-transit-rule/) - Transportation makes up the bulk of greenhouse gas, particulate matter, and NOx emissions in California. To combat dirty transportation emissions, California initially mandated the use of compressed natural gas transit buses. But as zero emissions bus technology advanced, a broad coalition committed to clean air and good jobs pushed California’s Air Resources Board to mandate
- [Women Can Build: Re-envisioning Rosie](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/sreussjobstomoveamerica-org/) - The Women Can Build photo series project uplifts the hardworking women in the transportation manufacturing industry.
- [The Power of Inclusive Procurement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/the-power-of-inclusive-procurement/) - How can inclusive procurement help create a fairer economy and healthier environment? Find out in our "Power of Inclusive Procurement" -- filled with tips and suggestions for how to bring inclusive procurement to your community.
- [Memo: Effect of U.S. Employment Plan on Competitive Bidding](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/memo-effect-of-u-s-employment-plan-on-competitive-bidding/) - This UCLA Law School study demonstrates the U.S. Employment Plan's impact on price and bidder pools.
- [Moving Forward: Toward Women's Equity and Inclusion in the Rail and Transit Sector](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/moving-forward-toward-womens-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-rail-and-transit-sector/) - The resources in this toolkit support the recruitment, training, and retention of women in nontraditional apprenticeship and jobs in the rail and transit sector.
- [Inclusive Procurement and Contracting: Building a Field of Policy and Practice](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/inclusive-procurement-and-contracting-building-a-field-of-policy-and-practice/) - This study, co-authored by Emerald Cities and PolicyLink, surveys the current landscape on inclusive procurement and contracting policies and practices in the infrastructure and construction industries.
- [Make It In America: The Apollo Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/make-it-in-america-the-apollo-clean-transportation-manufacturing-action-plan/) - The Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan recommendations, outlined in this report, present a comprehensive plan to scale up investments in public transit, rail, and clean freight, while simultaneously building up manufacturers and the jobs that they support.
- [Doing The People's Business](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/doing-the-peoples-business/) - This study from the Volcker Alliance explores the state of the public procurement workforce.
- [Public Transit Procurement: A National Initiative to Promote Economic Prosperity and to Unite Communities, Workers and Business](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/public-transit-procurement-a-national-initiative-to-promote-economic-prosperity-and-to-unite-communities-workers-and-business/) - This paper describes a national initiative to increase the quantity and improve the quality of U.S. manufacturing jobs related to the production of rail cars, clean buses and component parts used to operate public transit in the United States.
- [Pathways to Equity: Effective Transportation Career Partnerships](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/pathways-to-equity-effective-transportation-career-partnerships/) - This report by the Transportation Learning Center examines two programs aimed at advancing equity by expanding access to quality careers in transportation.
- [Electric buses are creating jobs in SoCal](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/electric-buses-are-creating-jobs-in-socal/) - An inside look into the Community Benefits Agreement between the JMA coalition, SMART union Local 105, and electric bus manufacturer BYD.
- [Purchasing for the Common Good 201](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/purchasing-for-the-common-good-101/) - An introductory webinar to "inclusive procurement" or "purchasing for the common good."
- [The History of Privatization](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/the-history-of-privatization/) - This article from Talking Points Memo, by Donald Cohen of In the Public Interest, explores the history of privatization and the four decade attack on government.
- [Reviving the U.S. Rail and Transit Industry](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/reviving-the-u-s-rail-and-transit-industry/) - This 2010 report examines the job creation potential of increased federal investment in rail and transit.
- [Harnessing Government Spending to Revitalize Good Manufacturing Jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/harnessing-government-spending-to-revitalize-good-manufacturing-jobs/) - This report considers new ways in which government can play a role in revitalizing manufacturing, and brings to light new tools to ensure good jobs, inclusivity, and community benefits.
- [Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing Through Public Procurement Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/strengthening-u-s-manufacturing-through-public-procurement-policies-how-procurement-policies-can-promote-innovation-and-good-jobs/) - This seminal study advances a policy framework capable of supporting a major revival of the U.S. manufacturing sector with a focus on expanding good job oppotunities for workers.
- [U.S. Manufacture of Rail Vehicles for Intercity Passenger Rail and Urban Transit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/u-s-manufacture-of-rail-vehicles-for-intercity-passenger-rail-and-urban-transit/) - This report determines the manufacturing potential of increased investment in passenger and transit rail by mapping the U.S. supply chain for six rail types.
- [Strengthening Skills Training and Career Pathways Across the Transportation Industry](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/strengthening-skills-training-and-career-pathways-across-the-transportation-industry/) - This report analyzes employment and skills data in the transportation industry to highlight future areas of growth and identify high-demand jobs with good wages.
- [Creating U.S. Manufacturing Jobs: How “Buying American” Can Raise the Job-Creation Potential of Public Transit Investments](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/creating-u-s-manufacturing-jobs-how-buying-american-can-raise-the-job-creation-potential-of-public-transit-investments/) - This research brief finds that when manufacturers raise the domestic content of their products, they create at least 26% more jobs than manufacturers that only meet the 60 percent Buy America requirement.

## Positions

- [Senior Digital Media Specialist](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/position/senior-digital-media-specialist/) - At this critical time for lower-income, frontline communities and people of color, Jobs to Move America (JMA) is uniquely positioned to advance a powerful agenda for equitable job creation and expanded access to training for historically underrepresented groups in the manufacturing sector.
- [Syracuse Organizer](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/position/syracuse-organizer/) - The organizer will be responsible for building and sustaining an active and engaged community, labor, and environmental coalition to win community benefits agreements that ensure worker and community needs are prioritized in the development of publicly funded projects.

## Staff and Board

- [Yohanny  Garcia-Ashley](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/yohanny-garcia-ashley/) - Ana graduated from the University of Colorado in Denver, and began her career in Denver in 1981, where she organized The Concerned Citizens of Westwood. She affiliated with the Metropolitan Organization for People in 1982 and went on to work on local and state campaigns, including enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act and affordable public
- [Tamara L. Lee, Esq.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/tamara-l-lee-esq/) - Tamara L. Lee, Esq. (she/her), is an Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. A member of Justice League NYC, Dr. Lee is an activist-scholar committed to publicly engaged scholarship and the democratization of knowledge. Her research seeks to more deeply account for
- [Robert Puentes](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/robert-puentes/) - Robert Puentes is the Vice President and Director of Brookings Metro. Puentes most recently served as the president and chief executive officer of the Eno Center for Transportation, a non-profit think tank with a mission to shape public debate on critical multimodal transportation issues and build a network of innovative transportation professionals. Prior to joining
- [Carl Kennebrew](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/carl-kennebrew/) - Carl Kennebrew became the 8th President of IUE-CWA on August 2, 2018. Carl has been a proud member of IUE-CWA for nearly 25 years. He started his Union career as an elected delegate and Vice-President of Local 84755 in Dayton, Ohio. While Vice-President, Carl graduated from The Minority Leadership Institute (MLI), an intensive 3-week program
- [Xinge Wang](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/xinge-wang/) - Xinge Wang is the Deputy Director of the Transportation Learning Center. Ms. Wang is one of this country’s leading experts on workforce demand, training capacity, and future projections of workforce needs. In 2015, Ms. Wang led the joint research effort of US Department of Transportation, Education and Labor to identify the future workforce needs to
- [Christian Sweeney](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/christian-sweeney/) - Christian Sweeney serves as the Deputy Director of Economic Power & Growth at the AFL-CIO. From higher education and gaming to manufacturing and child care, Sweeney has assisted workers from diverse industries and backgrounds in forming unions. Prior to coming to the federation, Sweeney worked in organizing for the UAW for more than 10 years,
- [Mike  Miller](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/mike-miller/) - Mike Miller was elected UAW Region 6 Director in December of 2022 under the UAW’s first direct ballot election. Miller’s involvement with the UAW started in 1992 when he was a Teaching Assistant at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In that year, Miller and his co-workers began what would be a long process
- [Dr. Beverly Scott](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/dr-beverly-scott/) - Dr. Scott’s career in the public transportation industry spans more than three decades, including four appointments as General Manager/CEO – General Manager, Massachusetts Bay Transportation and Rail & Transit Administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the Sacramento Regional Transit Authority (SRTD), and the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority
- [Tanya Wallace-Gobern](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/tanya-wallace-gobern/) - Tanya Wallace-Gobern became the Executive Director of the National Black Worker Center Project in June 2016. She brings over 20 years of experience in labor and community organizing. Tanya began her career immediately following college graduation, when she joined the Organizing Institute of the AFL-CIO. Soon after that, her desire to organize Black workers led
- [Michael  Coleman](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/michael-coleman/) - Michael Coleman assumed the position of SMART General President on June 1, 2023, having been elected by the SMART General Executive Council following the retirement of former SMART General President Joseph Sellers. In all, Coleman has more than 20 years of dedicated leadership at the local and international level. He played a crucial role during
- [Greg Regan](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/greg-regan/) - Greg Regan was elected TTD’s Secretary-Treasurer in 2017. As the department’s chief financial officer, he oversees the daily financial and administrative activities of TTD. He accounts for affiliate dues, budgets for the operations of the department, and plans for the long-term fiscal needs of the organization. In addition to his financial responsibilities, Greg leads and
- [John Samuelsen](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/john-samuelsen/) - Sworn in as the 10th TWU International President in May of 2017, John Samuelsen represents 40,000 members at the nation’s largest public transit agency. Prior to being elevated to the office of the President, Samuelsen served as Executive Vice President since 2013. Samuelsen is also the former President of TWU Local 100 in New York
- [Maria Somma](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/maria-somma-2/) - Organizing Director for the United Steelworkers, Maria Somma has had a long history with organizing starting with her experience as a teenager where she spent a summer at a women’s peace encampment on the outskirts of London next to a US airbase stocked with nuclear weapons. After attending college, Somma transitioned to working with student
- [Ed Wytkind](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/ed-wytkind/) - Policy development and advocacy professional with more than two decades of executive leadership experience constructing, shaping and influencing labor, transportation, infrastructure, technology, safety, security and other policy and legislation. Launched EW Strategies LLC in July 2017 after leading a national transportation labor organization, TTD, AFL-CIO, for more than two decades. EW Strategies LLC assists clients
- [Scott Douglas, III](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/scott-douglas-iii/) - Scott Douglas, III, a native of Nashville, TN, attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he co-founded the University’s Black Student Union in 1967. Residing in Birmingham since 1976, he served under the leadership of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Anne Braden as Executive Director of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice
- [Jacky Grimshaw](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/people/jacky-grimshaw/) - Jacky joined CNT in 1992, and has since developed its capacity to engage in public policy advocacy and transportation planning, transportation research, environmental justice, public participation tool development, GIS mapping, community economic development and air quality. Jacky advocated for and provided expertise to increase transit in the Chicago region. She created and led CNT’s transportation

## Press Releases

- [New Poll: 87% of Onondaga County Voters Polled Support Legally Binding Commitments from Micron to Ensure Community Benefits ](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/new-poll-87-of-onondaga-county-voters-polled-support-legally-binding-commitments-from-micron-to-ensure-community-benefits/) - New poll shows broad support for Micron to agree to enforceable commitments, including investments in job creation, environmental protections and public infrastructure Syracuse, New York – A new poll shows broad support among Onondaga County voters for enforceable commitments from Micron Technology as the company builds its chipmaking complex in Clay. The survey, conducted by
- [Protect the People Behind the World Cup: Coalition Demands Worker and Community Protections from FIFA and LASEC](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/protect-the-people-behind-the-world-cup-coalition-demands-worker-and-community-protections-from-fifa-and-lasec/) - Press Contact: Alaa Milbesamilbes@jobstomoveamerica.org Labor, community, environmental and human rights organizations release recommendations urging stronger accountability for FIFA and its corporate sponsors.Letter from Los Angeles Coalition to FIFA Head of Human RightsLetter from Los Angeles Coalition to LA Sports and Entertainment Commission LOS ANGELES, July 9, 2026 —Workers, fans, and community members
- [Jobs to Move America, Local Residents, File Lawsuit to Challenge Environmental Review of Micron’s Syracuse-Area Chip Plant](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-local-residents-file-lawsuit-to-challenge-environmental-review-of-microns-syracuse-area-chip-plant/) - Neighbors for a Better Micron, an association of local residents, and the advocacy organization, Jobs to Move America (JMA), have filed a lawsuit in New York State Court to address what residents and organizations say are serious, unresolved concerns about the potential environmental, health and community impacts of the company’s planned semiconductor manufacturing facility outside of Syracuse and ensure that there are robust economic benefits for the local community.
- [Hyundai-Kia’s U.S. supply chain named in “Dirty Dozen” report for dangerous and abusive working conditions](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/hyundai-kias-u-s-supply-chain-named-in-dirty-dozen-report-for-dangerous-and-abusive-working-conditions/) - The annual list spotlights 12 employers that have put workers at risk by failing to prevent on-the-job injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
- [JMA Applauds the City of Los Angeles’ Introduction of Recent Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jma-applauds-the-city-of-los-angeles-introduction-of-recent-policies/) - JMA Applauds the City of Los Angeles’ Introduction of Policies to Safeguard against Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Unsafe or Unlawful Working Conditions in Public Purchasing The City of Los Angeles introduced new legislative policies, led by Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, acknowledging the recent egregious labor practices found in the auto manufacturing industry and calling for
- [Coalition Launches to Ensure Micron’s $100B Project Delivers for Local Communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/coalition-launches-to-ensure-microns-100b-project-delivers-for-local-communities/) - Contact: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JMA: Lauren LaBorde llaborde@jobstomoveamerica.org Coalition Launches to Ensure Micron’s $100B Project Delivers for Local Communities CNY United for Community Benefits seeks
- [New Columbia Labor Lab Report Reveals Companies in Hyundai’s Alabama Supply Chain Rely on Prison Labor](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/new-columbia-labor-lab-report-reveals-companies-in-hyundais-alabama-supply-chain-rely-on-prison-labor/) - Study shows how coercive labor practices drive wage depression, unsafe conditions, and systemic inequality in the South New York, NY November 6, 2025 — Groundbreaking research from four prominent academics has quantified, for the first time in U.S. history, the economic impact of prison labor in Hyundai Motor Group’s (“Hyundai/Kia”) Southern supply chain, which makes
- [Jobs to Move America Files Lawsuit Against Hyundai and Kia for Using Prison and Child Labor in U.S. Supply Chain](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-files-lawsuit-against-hyundai-and-kia-for-using-prison-and-child-labor-in-u-s-supply-chain/) - Contact: Manny Rivera, manny@riveracomms.com Complaint Alleges Companies Misled California by Certifying Compliance with “High-Road” Labor Standards While Benefiting from Exploitative Practices Pasadena, CA — November 13, 2025 — Jobs to Move America (JMA), a national nonprofit advocating for good jobs and responsible public investment, today announced the filing of a major lawsuit against Hyundai and
- [New Report: Inequality, Insecurity, and Unsafe Conditions at Kawasaki's U.S. Manufacturing Facilities in New York and Nebraska](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/community-and-labor-groups-release-report-on-working-conditions-call-for-community-benefits-agreement-with-major-mta-contractor/) - Contact: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Troy Newsometnewsome@jobstomoveamerica.org(832) 451-9489 Community and labor groups release report on Kawasaki, call for Community Benefits Agreement NEW YORK, September 30,
- [New Report Reveals Harsh Trade-Offs for Local Workers and Communities in Tallassee Behind Neptune’s Smart Water Meter Success](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/new-report-reveals-harsh-trade-offs-for-local-workers-and-communities-in-tallassee-behind-neptunes-smart-water-meter-success/) - Contact: Hailey AllenJobs to Move America(205) 844-7021 | hallen@jobstomoveamerica.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Community Coalition Releases Report on Neptune Technology Group, Calls for Community Benefits Agreement TALLASSEE, Ala., September 15, 2025 – A newly released report from Jobs to Move America (JMA) reveals troubling findings about workplace practices and environmental impacts at Neptune Technology Group, a major
- [Over 600 Comments Submitted to Federal, Local Agencies on Micron’s Environmental Impact](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/over-600-comments-submitted-to-federal-local-agencies-on-microns-environmental-impact/) - Contact: Khadeejah AhmadJobs to Move America(315) 383-6602 | kahmad@jobstomoveamerica.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Over 600 Comments Submitted to Federal, Local Agencies on Micron’s Environmental Impact Community members call on Micron to protect the environment, workers Syracuse, NY — The public comment period on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Micron Technology’s proposed semiconductor megafacility in
- [LA Metro and JMA Settlement Resolves $730 Million Contract Dispute, Protecting U.S. Workers in the Face of Mounting Olympic Pressures](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/la-metro-and-jma-settlement-resolves-730-million-contract-dispute-protecting-u-s-workers-in-the-face-of-mounting-olympic-pressures/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: JMA: Aesha Mahmoud(562) 269 - 9193 amahmoud@jobstomoveamerica.org LA Metro and JMA Settlement Resolves
- [Labor, Environmental, and Social Justice Groups Call on Micron to Protect Workers and Communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/labor-environmental-and-social-justice-groups-call-on-micron-to-protect-workers-and-communities/) - Following Draft Environmental Impact Statement Release, CNY Advocates Push for 120-Day Public Comment Period and Launch “Community Vision” for Micron SYRACUSE, N.Y. (June 26, 2025) - At a press conference today, 16 community groups delivered a petition with over 1,600 signatories to the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency (OCIDA) requesting a longer and more inclusive
- [Stronger Accountability and Transparency Measures Included in State Semiconductor Tax Incentives](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/stronger-accountability-and-transparency-measures-included-in-state-semiconductor-tax-incentives/) - Finalized executive budget includes more robust jobs reporting for Semiconductor Manufacturing Workforce Training Incentive Program, Semiconductor Research & Development Project Program Tax Incentives SYRACUSE, NY, May 13, 2025 - Jobs to Move America (JMA) and its allies commend Governor Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Carl Heastie for strengthening transparency and accountability
- [Celebrating Women in Manufacturing: Honoring the Past, Empowering the Future](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/celebrating-women-in-manufacturing-honoring-the-past-empowering-the-future/) - This Women’s History Month, I celebrate the resilience and strength of women in manufacturing—those who have broken barriers, driven innovation, and shaped our workforce. From Rosie the Riveter to today’s factory floor leaders, our contributions have strengthened communities and transformed industries. As we honor this legacy, I also recognize the need to ensure continued progress for women in
- [Coalition Calls for Stronger Accountability in NY’s Semiconductor Tax Credits to Ensure Good Jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/coalition-calls-for-stronger-accountability-in-nys-semiconductor-tax-credits-to-ensure-good-jobs/) - Labor and Community Groups Fight for the Inclusion of Semiconductor Manufacturing Workforce Training Incentive Program and Semiconductor Research & Development Project Program tax credits in Executive Budget SYRACUSE, NY - Jobs to Move America (JMA) and its union partners are pledging their support for amendments to strengthen Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed tax credits to grow
- [Maria Svart, New Deputy Executive Director on the Choice Before Us](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/maria-svart-new-deputy-executive-director-on-the-choice-before-us/) - My name is Maria Svart and I recently joined JMA’s staff because I want a better and safer world for my family. We all deserve clean air and water and a fair chance to support those we love. We all, regardless of our background, deserve dignity and freedom, and that’s the work of JMA. I’ve
- [Building Birmingham’s Workforce: A Milestone for Economic Empowerment in the City of Birmingham](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/building-birminghams-workforce-a-milestone-for-economic-empowerment-in-the-city-of-birmingham/) - How a Local Hire Ordinance Will Create Jobs and Strengthen Birmingham’s Economy BIRMINGHAM, AL – In a historic move to promote local economic empowerment and equity, the Birmingham City Council unanimously passed a Local Hire Ordinance, which will leverage funding from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create transformative opportunities for local residents of Birmingham.
- [Transportation Unions and Jobs to Move America Demand Transparency on MTA’s Multi-Billion Dollar Kawasaki Rail Car Contract](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/transportation-unions-and-jobs-to-move-america-demand-transparency-on-mtas-multi-billion-dollar-kawasaki-rail-car-contract/) - Labor groups denounce MTA’s refusal to disclose job quality commitments; Jobs to Move America files lawsuit following years of stonewalling NEW YORK – Today, labor unions and advocacy organizations, including the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, and Jobs to Move America (JMA), are calling on the
- [Labor and Community Groups Call On Micron to Adopt Good Jobs Platform Amid Company’s $6.1 Billion Award in Federal Funding](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/labor-and-community-groups-call-on-micron-to-adopt-good-jobs-platform-amid-companys-6-1-billion-award-in-federal-funding/) - Groups call for community benefits agreement to protect workers and community Following the Department of Commerce’s announced award of $6.1 billion to Micron Technology, a coalition of Central New York groups is calling on the microchip company to make strong, enforceable commitments to the community. CNY Good Jobs for Equitable Access, made up of labor
- [Valle Unido Coalition Charts a Pathway Forward to a  Community-Centered Lithium Valley](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/valle-unido-coalition-charts-a-pathway-forward-to-a-community-centered-lithium-valley/) - Community, labor, and environmental groups call on Lithium companies to commit to good jobs and a healthy environment for Imperial Valley residents CALIPATRIA, CA.--Valle Unido Por Beneficios Comunitarios (Valle Unido), a new coalition of community, labor, and environmental groups, calls on companies pursuing lithium extraction to make binding commitments for a Lithium Valley that guarantees
- [Jobs to Move America Launches Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center ](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-launches-community-benefits-agreement-resource-center/) - Contact:Jobs to Move America, Lauren LaBordellaborde@jobstomoveamerica.org Jobs to Move America Launches Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center CBARC will partner with communities and employers to develop strong, equitable agreements. Jobs to Move America (JMA), a national nonprofit organization, is launching its Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center (CBARC), a unique initiative designed to support, guide and expand
- [Jobs to Move America Files Lawsuit Against LA Metro Alleging Violations of State and Federal Contracting Law](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-files-lawsuit-against-la-metro-alleging-violations-of-state-and-federal-contracting-law/) - JMA: Aesha Mahmoud(562) 269-9193amahmoud@jobstomoveamerica.org LOS ANGELES, September 16, 2024 – Jobs to Move America (JMA), a national public interest organization, has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“LA Metro”) for violating state and federal open bidding laws. JMA seeks a court order requiring LA Metro to rebid a $730 million
- [A Power Surge in the Deep South: New Flyer's Alabama Plant Electrifies Labor Rights Movement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/a-power-surge-in-the-deep-south-new-flyers-alabama-plant-electrifies-labor-rights-movement/) - In a pace-setting victory for workers' rights and the advancement of a new, stronger, clean-energy economy, workers at New Flyer of America Inc. – the country’s largest manufacturer of electric transit buses – have announced the ratification of a life-changing union contract at the company’s plant in Anniston, Ala.
- [Chicago Leaders Celebrate Pro-Worker Changes to Federal Guidelines](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/36952/) - Contact: Jobs to Move America: Lauren LaBordellaborde@jobstomoveamerica.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chicago Leaders Celebrate Pro-Worker Changes to Federal Guidelines White House updates to Uniform Grants Guidance include lifting 40-year ban on local hire. CHICAGO, IL – Today, Chicago Ald. Mike Rodriguez (22nd) and leaders from the Local Opportunities Coalition celebrated the White House Office of Management
- [White House Empowers Local Economies with Update to Federal Guidelines](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/white-house-empowers-local-economies-with-update-to-federal-guidelines/) - Coalition-driven updates to Uniform Grants Guidance include lifting 40-year ban on local hire. Contact:
- [United Auto Workers and Community Groups Demand Accountability From Hyundai Ahead of Major Transit Contract Approval](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/united-auto-workers-and-community-groups-demand-accountability-from-hyundai-ahead-of-major-transit-contract-approval/) - Following historic contract negotiations with the “Big 3” U.S. automakers, UAW members across multiple states are demanding accountability from Hyundai over a proposed $730 million rail car purchase by L.A. Metro. WHEN: Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 10:00am PST WHERE: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) Headquarters One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
- [EV Bus Manufacturer Proterra Closes Unionized LA Factory to move to Anti-Union South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/ev-bus-manufacturer-proterra-closes-unionized-la-factory-to-move-to-anti-union-south/) - Contact: Rob Yen ryen@jobstomoveamerica.org Major EV company breaks agreement with community, showing the importance of the fight to win good jobs everywhere Los Angeles, CA, October 3, 2023 - In a press conference hosted by Jobs to Move America, the Office of LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, and United Steelworkers Local 675 (USW), community
- [Civil Rights Leaders, Labor Unions and Community Coalitions Demand Hyundai Raise Standards in Wake of Child Labor Scandals and Construction Worker Death](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/civil-rights-leaders-labor-unions-and-community-coalitions-demand-hyundai-raise-standards-in-wake-of-child-labor-scandals-and-construction-worker-death/) - Contact: JMA: Rob Yen ryen@jobstomoveamerica.org Civil Rights Leaders, Labor Unions and Community Coalitions Demand Hyundai Raise Standards in Wake of Child Labor Scandals and Construction Worker Death Coalition of Alabama, Georgia Groups Calls on Hyundai to Commit to High-Road Jobs and Community Benefits in their U.S. Supply Chain Alabama, August 27, 2023 – In response
- [Coalition Calls for Community Benefits Agreement With Lion Electric ](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/coalition-calls-for-community-benefits-agreement-with-lion-electric/) - As Lion Electric officially opens its new manufacturing facility in Joliet, Illinois, a growing coalition of community members is calling on the electric vehicle company to negotiate a community benefits agreement (CBA) and commit to creating good jobs and investing in the community.
- [Report: Job Quality and Community Challenges Persist in Alabama and Mississippi Manufacturing Facilities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/report-job-quality-and-community-challenges-persist-in-alabama-and-mississippi-manufacturing-facilities/) - Contact: JMA: Rob Yen ryen@jobstomoveamerica.org Report: Job Quality and Community Challenges Persist in Alabama and Mississippi Manufacturing Facilities Jackson, MS, February 24, 2023 - A new report finds that job quality is low and work-life balance is virtually nonexistent for many employees of manufacturing facilities in Alabama and Mississippi. Job quality was assessed
- [Alabama groups issue request for proposals from organizations to handle worker discrimination, harassment complaints](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/alabama-groups-issue-request-for-proposals-from-organizations-to-handle-worker-discrimination-harassment-complaints/) - CONTACT: Shechel Williams(404) 484-7067‬swilliams@jobstomoveamerica.org Alabama groups issue request for proposals from organizations to handle worker discrimination, harassment complaintsNonprofits, law school clinics, and legal services in Alabama, southern Tennessee, or central-to-western Georgia are encouraged to apply by November 11 BIRMINGHAM, September 29, 2022 — Jobs to Move America (JMA) and Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM) released a
- [Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs SB 674, California’s High Road Jobs Program, Into Law](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/gov-gavin-newsom-signs-sb-674-californias-high-road-jobs-program-into-law/) - CONTACT: Lauren LaBorde(504) 289-1626llaborde@jobstomoveamerica.org Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs SB 674, California’s High Road Jobs Program, Into Law Law will support creation and retention of quality jobs in green transit manufacturing SACRAMENTO, CA –Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 674, California’s High Road Jobs Program, which supports the creation and
- [More than 20 Alabama community groups call on Hyundai to stop alleged use of child labor at suppliers; groups say recent reports of violations show need for community benefits agreement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/more-than-20-alabama-community-groups-call-on-hyundai-to-stop-alleged-use-of-child-labor-at-suppliers/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Paola RodelasCommunications Director, Jobs to Move America(808) 333-4782prodelas@jobstomoveamerica.org Robyn HydenExecutive Director, Alabama Arise(334) 832-9060robyn@alarise.org More than 20 Alabama community groups call on Hyundai to stop alleged use of child labor at suppliers Groups say recent reports of violations show need for community benefits agreement September 22, 2022 - The Alabama Coalition for
- [U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, Jobs to Move America Announce New Pathways into Good Jobs in Manufacturing](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/u-s-department-of-labor-womens-bureau-jobs-to-move-america-announce-new-pathways-into-good-jobs-in-manufacturing/) - BIRMINGHAM, July 27, 2022 - Jobs to Move America (JMA) and the Department of Labor (DOL) hosted an event with the DOL Women’s Bureau National Director Wendy Chun-Hoon who explored upcoming opportunities and benefits for women to make inroads into manufacturing. Women make up about 47% of the total workforce, but only make up less
- [New report details the impact of transitioning the nation’s 500,000 school buses to electric vehicles](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/electric-school-bus-report/) - Report provides roadmap for how to transition fairly so all communities benefit NEW YORK, MAY 24, 2022 — Today, Jobs to Move America (JMA) unveiled a new report that details the impact of transitioning the nation’s 500,000 school buses to electric vehicles. Switching to green school buses is badly needed, but there are many questions
- [Major electric vehicle manufacturer signs first multi-state agreement with community and civil rights group for equitable hiring and good jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/major-electric-vehicle-manufacturer-signs-first-multi-state-agreement-with-community-and-civil-rights-group-for-equitable-hiring-and-good-jobs/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: JMA: Paola Rodelas (808) 333-4782 prodelas@jobstomoveamerica.org Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP: Michael Troncoso (619) 338-3821 MTroncoso@rgrdlaw.com LOS ANGELES AND BIRMINGHAM, May 26, 2022 – Jobs to Move America (“JMA”), Greater Birmingham Ministries (“GBM”), and New Flyer of America Inc. (“New Flyer”) - the largest bus manufacturer in North America and
- [Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits Supports Amazon Workers’ Unionization Drive](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/alabama-coalition-for-community-benefits-supports-amazon-workers-unionization-drive/) - BIRMINGHAM, February 10, 2022 - The Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits is pleased that Amazon workers in Bessemer will get another chance to choose whether to unionize. The Coalition–made of labor, community, civil rights, faith, and environmental justice groups–encourages Amazon workers to vote yes to unionize and continue to build the Southern worker movement. The
- [ElectrifyNY Press Statement on 2022 New York State Budget](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/electrifyny-press-statement-on-2022-new-york-state-budget/) - We are encouraged by the adoption of a 2035 zero-emissions school bus fleet mandate in the state budget, but are concerned that transit and paratransit vehicle fleets are not yet addressed. Transportation accounts for 28% of New York State's greenhouse emissions, and pollution from fossil fuel combustion in this sector has grown worse during the
- [Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits Believes Strong Community Support Gave Amazon Bessemer Unionization Drive a Boost](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/alabama-coalition-for-community-benefits-believes-strong-community-support-gave-amazon-bessemer-unionization-drive-a-boost/) - BIRMINGHAM, April 1, 2022 - The Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits released the following statement on the Amazon unionization drive in Bessemer: Alongside the Amazon Bessemer workers, we are eagerly waiting for the result of their union election which hinges on 416 ballots challenged by the union and the employer. We feel victorious already because
- [Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits Drives Successful Community Education Program on Workers’ Rights, Amazon Unionization](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/alabama-coalition-for-community-benefits-drives-successful-community-education-program-on-workers-rights-amazon-unionization/) - BIRMINGHAM, March 31, 2022 - The Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits just wrapped up an intensive community education program to initiate conversations about workers’ rights and the Amazon workers’ unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama–canvassing over 3,000 individuals and 500 communal institutions such as barber shops, hair salons, and churches, like the “kitchen table” conversations that
- [ITLC and JMA release report on providing training to workers for zero emission buses](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/itlc-and-jma-release-report-on-providing-training-to-workers-for-zero-emission-buses/) - For Immediate Release Silver Spring, Md. - February 16, 2022: The International Transportation Learning Center (ITLC) and Jobs to Move America (JMA) announced today the release of their report to assist public transit agencies in meeting the requirements in the bipartisan infrastructure bill to train workers in the operations and maintenance of zero emissions buses
- [JMA Southern Director Erica Iheme Wins Prestigious Game Changer Award](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jma-southern-director-erica-iheme-wins-prestigious-game-changer-award/) - Erica Iheme, Southern Director at Jobs to Move America (JMA), has won the inaugural Game Changer Award by Women Innovating Labor Leadership (WILL) Empower, a group dedicated to training and nurturing the next generation of women labor leaders.
- [Toward a New Procurement Law: Reclaiming Competition for the Common Good](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/toward-a-new-procurement-law-reclaiming-competition-for-the-common-good/) - Jobs to Move America and the UCLA Law School David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy are excited to invite you to our upcoming panel: Toward a New Procurement Law: Reclaiming Competition for the Common Good When: August 9, 2021 at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET SpeakersScott Cummings, Robert Henigson Professor of Legal
- [Jobs to Move America and the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union announce the signing of the organization’s first staff contract](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-and-the-nonprofit-professional-employees-union-announce-the-signing-of-the-organizations-first-staff-contract/) - Media contacts:Alaa Milbes, Jobs to Move Americaamilbes@jobstomoveamerica.orgKatie Barrows, Nonprofit Professional Employees Unionkbarrows@npeu.org LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2021 - Jobs to Move America (JMA) and the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, IFPTE Local 70 (NPEU), are excited to announce the signing of the organization’s first collective bargaining agreement. This first three-year contract formalizes and expands the rights
- [As school systems recover, new research reveals how New York can speed up equitable transition to electric school buses](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/as-school-systems-recover-new-research-reveals-how-new-york-can-speed-up-equitable-transition-to-electric-school-buses/) - Policy recommendations outline path for equitable, swift transition to curb toxic air pollution and create good manufacturing jobs for workers.
- [Coalition of 160+ local officials, organizations, and academics calls on Biden administration to overturn ban on local hire, create local jobs and fix economy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/coalition-of-160-local-officials-organizations-and-academics-call-on-biden-administration-to-overturn-ban-on-local-hire-create-local-jobs-and-fix-economy/) - Demand comes as a report reveals that local hire creates opportunities for marginalized workers.
- [Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits releases solidarity video in support of Amazon workers in Bessemer](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/alabama-coalition-for-community-benefits-releases-solidarity-video-in-support-of-amazon-workers-in-bessemer/) - The Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits released a video in solidarity with the workers organizing a union at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
- [Labor and community groups sign landmark Community Benefits Agreement with Proterra](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/labor-and-community-groups-sign-landmark-community-benefits-agreement-with-proterra/) - The agreement with JMA and USW 675 commits Proterra to goal of hiring 50% of its workers from communities facing significant barriers to employment, such as veterans, women, and people of color.
- [Electric bus manufacturer BYD Motors renews landmark community benefits agreement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/electric-bus-manufacturer-byd-motors-renews-landmark-community-benefits-agreement/) - One of the world’s largest manufacturers of electric vehicles, BYD, renewed its commitment to hiring 40% of its workers from populations facing significant barriers to employment, such as veterans, women, and African Americans.
- [Jobs to Move America joins growing trend of U.S. non-profits unionizing](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-joins-growing-trend-of-u-s-non-profits-unionizing/) - LOS ANGELES, January 15, 2020 -- Reflecting a growing trend of unionization among the nation’s over twelve million non-profit employees, Jobs to Move America (JMA) employees and management announced today that they have signed a voluntary agreement recognizing the formation of a staff union at the organization. JMA staff is joining the Nonprofit Professional Employees
- [World’s biggest railcar manufacturers learn about U.S. workforce development, prepare bids for Amtrak and California high-speed trains](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/worlds-biggest-railcar-manufacturers-learn-about-u-s-workforce-development-prepare-bids-for-amtrak-and-california-high-speed-trains/) - On April 7, representatives of the world’s largest railcar manufacturing companies learned about best-practices in American workforce development, diversity, and outreach to disadvantaged workers via an informational webinar hosted by the Jobs to Move America coalition. The companies are preparing to submit proposals to Amtrak and the California High Speed Rail Authority by May 17, competing for a multi-billion dollar contract
- [Chicago Transit Authority restarts $2 billion railcar procurement with strong manufacturing job-creating approach](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/chicago-transit-authority-restarts-2-billion-rail-car-procurement-with-strong-manufacturing-job-creating-approach/) - CHICAGO, IL – On July 24, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) will restart its procurement of up to 846 railcars worth up to $2 billion with a new approach that can create thousands of good jobs manufacturing the trains. CTA’s new solicitation for bids will include a “U.S. Employment
- [Telebriefing: city and state leaders harness $4.4 billion transportation spending for quality jobs, leading national shift](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/telebriefing-city-and-state-leaders-harness-4-4-billion-transportation-spending-for-quality-jobs-leading-national-shift/) - On September 30, experts in economics, sociology, and urban planning will convene a media telebriefing to discuss a new nationwide trend toward cities creating good manufacturing jobs through transportation spending. Since July, three major U.S. transit purchases by Amtrak, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Transit Authority, and the Maryland Transit Administration – collectively
- [OSHA complaints reveal dangerous, unhealthy working conditions at Nippon Sharyo railcar factory in Illinois](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/nippon-sharyo-railcar-manufacturing-workers-ask-osha-to-investigate-dangerous-plant-conditions-2/) - On Monday, November 10, members of the Illinois Jobs to Move America coalition spoke out against dangerous and unhealthy working conditions at a passenger train (railcar) factory in Rochelle, Illinois owned by Nippon Sharyo. The coalition held a press conference outside the Ogilvie Transportation Center and Metra station in downtown Chicago to announce the filing
- [National transportation expert and labor leader Ed Wytkind to receive LAANE City of Justice award](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/national-transportation-expert-and-labor-leader-ed-wytkind-to-receive-laane-city-of-justice-award/) - On Thursday, December 11, 2014, Los Angeles native Edward Wytkind will receive a City of Justice Award from the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). Mr. Wytkind is being recognized for his more than two decades of work as a national expert and advocate for bipartisan public policy solutions for America’s transportation system and
- [Statement: California high-speed rail](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/statement-california-high-speed-rail/) - Jobs to Move America urges all companies that are bidding for the contract to build America’s first modern high-speed trains to commit to creating good U.S. jobs and providing opportunities for disadvantaged Americans. With high-speed rail, California recently broke ground on one of the largest infrastructure projects in state history. It promises to connect the
- [Delegation of 15 Illinois community, faith, labor leaders visits Nippon Sharyo railcar factory to express severe concerns over workplace hazards](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/delegation-of-15-illinois-community-faith-labor-leaders-visits-nippon-sharyo-railcar-factory-to-express-severe-concerns-over-workplace-hazards/) - On Monday, March 9, a delegation representing eight Chicago-area community, faith and labor organizations traveled to the Nippon Sharyo rail car factory in Rochelle, Illinois, to express in-person their grave concerns over alleged unhealthy and dangerous working conditions inside the factory. The delegation was organized by the Illinois Jobs to Move America coalition, and included
- [Experts from Jobs to Move America coalition submit input in Department of Transportation comment period for local job creation initiative](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/experts-from-jobs-to-move-america-coalition-submit-input-in-department-of-transportation-comment-period-for-local-job-creation-initiative/) - On April 6, 39 member-organizations of the Jobs to Move America coalition – including community, labor, civil rights, academic, philanthropic, and environmental groups – submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in favor of allowing job-creation incentives connected to federal transportation contracts, at the scheduled conclusion of a 30-day public comment period. The DOT then
- [U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration hits Nippon Sharyo with 11 violations in Illinois factory](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/u-s-occupational-safety-health-administration-hits-nippon-sharyo-with-11-violations-in-illinois-factory/) - On Tuesday, April 28, the Illinois Jobs to Move America coalition – including dozens of Illinois community, faith, environmental and labor groups – will observe ​the 45th annual ​Workers Memorial Day and thank the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for protecting workers on the job. OSHA recently cited railcar manufacturer Nippon Sharyo for one serious
- [Illinois Jobs to Move America coalition offers workforce development expertise to railcar manufacturers vying for $2 billion Chicago Transit Authority contract](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/illinois-jobs-to-move-america-coalition-offers-workforce-development-expertise-to-railcar-manufacturers-vying-for-2-billion-chicago-transit-authority-contract/) - Chicago, IL — On Friday, June 5, the Illinois Jobs to Move America coalition will host an informational webinar with a panel of experts, to help major global railcar manufacturing companies demonstrate their commitment to good jobs, career tracks, training and community investment in their proposals to Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), competing for an estimated
- [Live from APTA: Dept. of Transportation promotes second chances through manufacturing job training opportunities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/live-from-apta-dept-of-transportation-promotes-second-chances-through-manufacturing-job-training-opportunities/) - This week the Jobs to Move America team is at APTA’s Annual Meeting 2015 in San Francisco to learn the latest in transportation trends and investing in our transit future, from workforce development to sustainability to high-speed rail. Yesterday we heard a very inspiring speech from U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who began by saying that “transportation
- [Protest denounces broken promises by BYD Motors, Inc., Chinese electric bus manufacturer to taxpayers of LA](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/protest-denounces-broken-promises-by-byd-motors-inc-chinese-electric-bus-manufacturer-to-taxpayers-of-la/) - On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Jobs to Move America protested outside the headquarters of BYD Motors, Inc., a Chinese electric bus company (1800 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015) to denounce the failure of BYD to create promised living wage jobs for local residents in exchange for over $39 million in city and state
- [New study examines real impact of “Buy America” and other public procurement initiatives](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/new-study-examines-real-impact-of-buy-america-and-other-public-procurement-initiatives/) - Washington, D.C. – The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Jobs to Move America, a national coalition uniting more than 50 community, faith, labor, and civil rights organizations, released a new report about opportunities for American job creation through transportation procurement policies, called “Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing Through Public Procurement Policies.” The report comes after Congress
- [JMA to LA Metro on $1 billion purchase of heavy railcars: hold manufacturers accountable to creating good manufacturing jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jma-to-la-metro-on-1-billion-purchase-of-heavy-railcars/) - LOS ANGELES — On May 29, 2015, Los Angeles Metro (LA Metro) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the purchase of up to 282 heavy-rail vehicles—a contract worth an estimated $1 billion. On Monday, January 11 2016, companies interested in competing for this contract must submit their proposals. LA Metro included a Local Employment Plan
- [Jobs to Move America holds “Know Your Rights” action in front of BYD headquarters](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-holds-know-your-rights-action-in-front-of-byd-headquarters/) - On Wednesday, January 27, the Jobs to Move America (JMA) coalition organized a “Know Your Rights” action in front of the Build Your Dreams Motor Company (BYD) headquarters in Los Angeles. The event sought to inform employees of their rights under the Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance (LWO). BYD has a public contract with the City of Los Angeles,
- [Dept. of Transportation Secretary Foxx to transit officials: Maximize impact of $305 Billion FAST Act to create U.S. jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/dept-of-transportation-secretary-foxx-to-transit-officials-maximize-impact-of-305-billion-fast-act-to-create-u-s-jobs/) - Late last year, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (Fast Act) approving $305 billion in transportation spending. The Act includes a number of provisions, including a 10 percent increase in Buy America transit requirements meant to boost domestic American manufacturing. On February 19, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx sent a
- [CTA chooses manufacturer for newest-generation rail cars](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/cta-chooses-manufacturer-for-newest-generation-rail-cars/) - CSR Sifang America proposal will create 170 jobs; Company will build new, $40 million assembly facility in Chicago Chicago— The Chicago Transit Board today awarded a contract for the newest generation of CTA rail cars—the 7000-series—continuing the unprecedented modernization of the CTA under Mayor Rahm Emanuel while fostering economic development and job creation in Chicago. The new
- [JMA statement on USDOT Ladders of Opportunity initiatives](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jma-statement-on-usdot-ladders-of-opportunity-initiatives/) - Transportation is essential to every American’s life. Each day, millions of Americans rely on it to participate in society. For years, inequitable transportation infrastructure has separated communities along racial and economic lines. Transportation investment has historically resulted in few good manufacturing jobs for low-income communities, preventing them from accessing key economic opportunities. In an extraordinary move this month, US Department
- [Coalition to transit companies: create jobs with taxpayer-funded transit projects](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/coalition-to-transit-companies-create-jobs-with-taxpayer-funded-transit-projects/) - Los Angeles – On Tax Day, April 18, the Jobs to Move America (JMA) coalition – including community, labor, civil rights, academic, philanthropic and environmental groups – held an action in front of the offices of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority calling on companies bidding for LA Metro’s $1 billion contract for heavy
- [MTA commits to U.S. jobs with new $3.2 billion subway car purchase](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/mta-commits-to-u-s-jobs-with-new-3-2-billion-subway-car-purchase/) - New York – The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the upcoming purchase of 1025 subway cars, worth an estimated $3.2 billion, that prioritizes the creation and retention of good manufacturing jobs for U.S. workers. The bid will include a U.S. Employment Plan, developed by Jobs to Move America (JMA), which
- [Transit and labor leaders address the power of transportation investment to transform lives and communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/transit-and-labor-leaders-address-the-power-of-transportation-investment-to-transform-lives-and-communities/) - As transit agencies across the country aim to build and rebuild infrastructure, among the issues they face is finding qualified workers to fill positions produced by projects, said prominent transit officials and stakeholders at an industry forum on Monday. Good workers, in turn, can get the jobs and wages needed to boost local economies and
- [Workforce development webinar educates bus manufacturers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/workforce-development-webinar-educates-bus-manufacturers/) - Los Angeles — Representatives of bus manufacturing companies joined community and labor groups on Thursday to learn about best practices in workforce development, achieving workforce diversity, and outreach to underserved workers in a webinar hosted by Jobs to Move America and its partners. Companies are preparing to submit proposals to LA Metro by November 18
- [Chicago Federation of Labor and JMA receive $4 million award for workforce development in Chicago](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/chicago-federation-of-labor-and-jma-receive-4-million-award-for-workforce-development-in-chicago/) - The Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative and Jobs to Move America (JMA) are excited to announce they were part of a team that has received a $4 million award to focus on manufacturing workforce development in Chicago. The America’s Promise Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor presents a unique opportunity to
- [‘Women Can Build’ photography exhibit highlights working women in U.S. manufacturing and transportation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/women-can-build-photography-exhibit-highlighs-working-women-in-u-s-manufacturing-and-transportation/) - New York — In honor of Women’s History Month, Jobs to Move America and the New York City Department of Transportation announced today the launch of the Women Can Build photography exhibit revealing the overlooked contributions of the skilled and hard-working women building our 21st Century transportation — including trams, rail, buses, bridges and roads.
- [Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th century battle over South African apartheid and lessons for the Trump era](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/reagan-vs-cities-the-20th-century-battle-over-south-african-apartheid-lessons-for-the-trump-era/) - On June 27, Jobs to Move America released a report that pieces together the story of how cities and states joined the fight against apartheid in South Africa and how the Reagan administration sought to suppress those efforts. Between December 2016 and June 2017, JMA researchers combed through thousands of pages of documents—legal memos, policy
- [JMA provides public comment on draft DOT strategic plan](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jma-provides-public-comment-on-draft-dot-strategic-plan/) - Jobs to Move America (JMA) respectfully submits the following comments to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) regarding the DOT’s strategic plan for FY 2018-2022 and Request for Public Comment, Docket Number DOT-OST-2009-0092. Jobs to Move America is a non-profit committed to harnessing government procurement to realize equity; to promote environmental sustainability; to further open,
- [Labor and community groups sign landmark agreement with electric bus manufacturer BYD in Los Angeles](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/labor-and-community-groups-sign-landmark-agreement-with-electric-bus-manufacturer-byd-in-los-angeles/) - BYD, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electric vehicles, commits to hiring 40 percent of its workers from populations facing significant barriers to employment, such as veterans, women, and African Americans. Los Angeles – Jobs to Move America (JMA), a coalition of community-based groups and electric bus manufacturer BYD Motors, announced the signing of
- [Trump administration drops local hire program that would have employed hundreds of thousands of workers in their own communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/trump-administration-drops-local-hire-program-that-would-have-employed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-workers-in-their-own-communities/) - Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that effective tomorrow it will no longer support local hire programs in cities that receive federal grants. The DOT announced this week that it is withdrawing a proposed revision of a rule that – since 1988 – has prohibited the use of geographic preferences in the
- [After rally, LA Metro committee supports permanent jobs and equity policy, creating a pathway to 22,000 jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/after-rally-la-metro-committee-supports-permanent-jobs-and-equity-policy-creating-a-pathway-to-22000-jobs/) - Los Angeles – Following a rally with California Jobs to Move America in support of Metro Director and Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis’ motion to adopt a Permanent U.S. Employment Plan Policy for Metro bus and rail car purchase projects above $100 million, the motion was unanimously passed by the Metro Systems, Safety,
- [Gov. Cuomo and the New York MTA announce major victory for local communities and U.S. workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/gov-cuomo-and-the-new-york-mta-announce-major-victory-for-local-communities-and-u-s-workers/) - New York – U.S. workers scored a major victory today. This victory was made possible by New York Metropolitan Authority’s (MTA’s) adoption of the U.S. Employment Plan (USEP), a nationwide initiative designed by Jobs to Move America (JMA) to drive up American manufacturing jobs. Today, Governor Cuomo and the New York Metropolitan Authority (MTA) approved
- [A pathway to 22,000 jobs: LA County Metro Board unanimously approves first-of-its-kind good jobs policy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/a-pathway-to-22000-jobs-la-county-metro-board-unanimously-approves-first-of-its-kind-good-jobs-policy/) - The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) 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 today. The motion was introduced by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis and included five co-authors from the
- [California Air Resources Board commits to zero emission buses and job creation in new rule](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/california-air-resources-board-commits-to-zero-emission-buses-and-job-creation-in-new-rule/) - Los Angeles – The California Air Resources Board voted on Friday to mandate that all transit agencies in California operate 100 percent zero emission transit buses by 2040, and to use this transition to invest in workforce development training programs in manufacturing, infrastructure installation, and maintenance. The rule, which includes language calling for good jobs
- [ElectrifyNY coalition launches to fight for equitable electric transportation future](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/electrifyny-coalition-launches-to-fight-for-equitable-electric-transportation-future/) - New York – On April 25, ElectrifyNY, a new coalition of environmental justice, public transportation, public health, and good jobs advocates, launched its campaign for a clean, equitable electric transportation future for the state of New York. ElectrifyNY is calling on New York State to commit to a swift, just transition to a zero emissions transportation
- [New report: Clean air and good jobs are achievable if cities and states plan for it](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/new-report-clean-air-and-good-jobs-are-achievable-if-cities-and-states-plan-for-it/) - As policymakers and communities struggle with questions about how to clean our air and protect and create new jobs, a respected scientist from Jobs to Move America released a new report today, “Transforming Transit, Realizing Opportunity” that shows how those goals can be achieved. The report takes a comprehensive look at how cities can electrify
- [JMA and Caltech celebrate International Women’s Day](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jma-and-caltech-celebrate-international-womens-day/) - Pasadena—Jobs to Move America (JMA) teamed up with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to celebrate International Women’s Day. The event showcased the “Women Can Build” photography exhibit, which reveals the overlooked contributions of skilled and hard-working women who are building our buses and trains. In attendance were Caltech students, faculty, staff, and community members.
- [Jobs to Move America launches as new national organization focused on economic opportunity in transportation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/jobs-to-move-america-launches-as-new-national-organization-focused-on-economic-opportunity-in-transportation/) - Los Angeles — Jobs to Move America (JMA), an organization dedicated to advocating for good jobs in transit manufacturing announced its launch as an independent national non-profit organization. JMA, originally a national campaign nurtured at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), was created in 2013 to re-envision the potential for reviving U.S.
- [Nippon Sharyo Railcar Manufacturing Workers Ask OSHA to Investigate Dangerous Plant Conditions](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/press-release/nippon-sharyo-railcar-manufacturing-workers-ask-osha-to-investigate-dangerous-plant-conditions/) - On Monday, November 10, workers will speak out against dangerous and unhealthy conditions in the Nippon Sharyo passenger train factory in Rochelle, IL, and announce the filing of U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) complaint. Workers at the plant build railcars for Metra and other public transit agencies around the country. The workers will

## In the News

- [Commentary: Let's build the Micron plant right](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/commentary-lets-build-the-micron-plant-right/) - Neighbors for a Better Micron member Timothy Roulan says the community deserves more accountability from Micron. Commentary_ Let's build the Micron plant rightDownload
- [Lawsuit claims Micron's $100 billion New York chip fab could discharge "forever chemicals" into the Oneida River](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/lawsuit-claims-microns-100-billion-new-york-chip-fab-could-discharge-forever-chemicals-into-the-oneida-river/) - PFAS exposure has been linked to cancer, reproductive problems, and weakened immune response
- [Lawsuit challenges Micron’s air, wastewater permits granted by NY](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/lawsuit-challenges-microns-air-wastewater-permits-granted-by-ny/) - A new lawsuit alleges that the permits issued for the sprawling Micron Technology chipmaking complex in the town of Clay will allow Micron to pollute the air and water with toxic chemicals.
- [Neighbors for a Better Micron calls for community benefits agreement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/neighbors-for-a-better-micron-calls-for-community-benefits-agreement/) - Micron’s planned development in Central New York has been promoted as a major economic boost expected to bring thousands of jobs. But a growing group of nearby residents says the project also needs safeguards for the people who already call the area home.
- [New York $100B project puts ‘forever chemicals’ on residents’ radar after lawsuit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-york-100b-project-puts-forever-chemicals-on-residents-radar-after-lawsuit/) - A major legal challenge has emerged against the largest semiconductor manufacturing project in the United States over environmental safety concerns.
- [Some critics in LA say FIFA sponsors 'sportswashed' the World Cup and betrayed the city’s values](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/some-critics-in-la-say-fifa-sponsors-sportswashed-the-world-cup-and-betrayed-the-citys-values/) - This summer's World Cup has been a bonanza for corporate sponsors. Hydration breaks are "powered by Powerade." Each game crowns a Michelob Ultra "superior player of the match."
- [“Hyundai Motor Underage Labor” Sparks Another Controversy…Protest Rally in Downtown on the 9th](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-motor-underage-labor-sparks-another-controversyprotest-rally-in-downtown-on-the-9th/) - Hyundai Motor Company, an official sponsor of the CONCACAF World Cup, has once again become embroiled in a controversy regarding the exploration of underage labor.
- [City & State NY First Read: New poll of Onondaga County voters on Micron](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/city-state-ny-first-read-new-poll-of-onondaga-county-voters-on-micron/) - Seventy percent of registered Onondaga County voters support the forthcoming Micron chipmaking complex, but also want the company to be held legally accountable for theenvironmental consequences of its $100 billion megafab, a new survey commissioned by Jobs to Move America shows. city and state micron pollDownload
- [Guadalajara protesters accuse Hyundai of using World Cup to hide ‘dirty supply chain’](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/guadalajara-protesters-accuse-hyundai-of-using-world-cup-to-hide-dirty-supply-chain/) - Communities, climate activists and workers took to the streets in Guadalajara to protest what they describe as ‘greenwashing through sports’
- [Canadian lawyers urge crackdown over Alabama prison labour imports](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/canadian-lawyers-urge-crackdown-over-alabama-prison-labour-imports/) - "Those conditions amount to coercion that essentially pushes people into work release jobs and forces them to remain there," Meredith Stewart, litigation director with Jobs to Move America, told CBC News.
- [Hyundai-Kia U.S. Supply Chain Named Among ‘Dirty Dozen’ Workplaces](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-kia-u-s-supply-chain-named-among-dirty-dozen-workplaces/) - Hyundai-Kia U.S. Supply Chain suppliers have been named among the nation’s worst workplaces, according to a labor safety report released Tuesday, highlighting concerns over worker safety, labor practices, and oversight within the automakers’ supplier network.
- [National COSH Reveals Dirty Dozen 2026: The Companies Putting Workers Most at Risk](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/national-cosh-reveals-dirty-dozen-2026-the-companies-putting-workers-most-at-risk/) - On April 22, 2026, marking the beginning of Workers’ Memorial Week the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) has released its 2026 Dirty Dozen report, identifying twelve companies that have put workers’ lives at risk through unsafe practices, inadequate protections, and systemic neglect.
- [OSHA has the rules to protect workers’ safety. Alabama needs enforcement: op-ed](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/osha-has-the-rules-to-protect-workers-safety-alabama-needs-enforcement-op-ed/) - All workers, regardless of their job or workplace, should have the same basic expectation: they should be able to return home each day in the same condition as when they arrived at work.
- [Hyundai-Kia supply chain included in “Dirty Dozen” list of dangerous employers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-kia-supply-chain-included-in-dirty-dozen-list-of-dangerous-employers/) - “I reported my injuries, but I was still required to work in pain for months before getting proper medical attention,” Hyundai employee Kissy Cox said in a statement released by Jobs to Move America alongside the report. “I have witnessed many of my coworkers are going through the same thing. The company says it’s a
- [National COSH Names Annual Dirty Dozen Employers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/national-cosh-names-annual-dirty-dozen-employers/) - Hyundai-Kia's U.S. supply chain is featured in the organization’s 2026 "Dirty Dozen" findings, released during Workers’ Memorial Week, emphasizing the impact of reduced inspections and declining financial penalties on laborer safety.
- [Hyundai US Supply Chain Workers Subject To 'Systemic Labor Exploitation': Report](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-us-supply-chain-workers-subject-to-systemic-labor-exploitation-report/) - Advocacy groups like the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health and Jobs to Move America, pointing to assorted allegations of labor abuses at these suppliers, argue Hyundai Motor ought to be responsible for the abuses within its supply chain.
- [Concerns grow over PFAS, water impact tied to Micron project](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/concerns-grow-over-pfas-water-impact-tied-to-micron-project/) - As Micron’s chip plant project moves forward in Clay, some neighbors are raising concerns about potential health and environmental risks.
- [Promises, not guarantees: Locals press Micron for legal commitment to green goals, new jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/promises-not-guarantees-locals-press-micron-for-legal-commitment-to-green-goals-new-jobs/) - As a child growing up in central New York, Bonita Siegel watched a major infrastructure project reshape the region in the 1960s. Most people cheered the Rust Belt city’s development. Decades later, Siegel wasn’t so sure.
- [Micron’s $100 billion New York semiconductor manufacturing project is facing local pushback](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/microns-100-billion-new-york-semiconductor-manufacturing-project-is-facing-local-pushback/) - Lawsuit over Micron’s massive Syracuse project raises concerns about toxic risks and alleges a rushed environmental review.
- [Effort to Fast-Track Semiconductor Manufacturing Faces Community Pushback](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/effort-to-fast-track-semiconductor-manufacturing-faces-community-pushback/) - Lawsuit over Micron’s massive Syracuse project raises concerns about toxic risks and alleges a rushed environmental review.
- [New coalition wants to hold Micron to their promises to CNY region](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-coalition-wants-to-hold-micron-to-their-promises-to-cny-region/) - A new coalition launched just days after Micron's groundbreaking in Clay, New York to ensure the company is held accountable to their commitments.
- [New coalition seeks stronger environmental and workforce commitments from Micron](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-coalition-seeks-stronger-environmental-and-workforce-commitments-from-micron/) - A new coalition of community organizations and environmental experts is calling on Micron to ensure Central New Yorkers see a return on the 20 billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the project.
- [Advocacy group sues Micron, planning boards, NYS DEC over Clay site environmental concerns](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/advocacy-group-sues-micron-planning-boards-nys-dec-over-clay-site-environmental-concerns/) - An advocacy group known as Jobs to Move America and a group of local residents have filed a lawsuit in New York State Court to try to block the construction of Micron Technology's Facility in Clay, New York.
- [As officials celebrate Micron's groundbreaking, a new lawsuit says environmental review was rushed](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/as-officials-celebrate-microns-groundbreaking-a-new-lawsuit-says-environmental-review-was-rushed/) - Micron broke ground last week on its massive semiconductor chip-making facility in Onondaga County. But as work gets underway to clear trees from hundreds of acres of land in the Town of Clay, a lawsuit says the environmental review was rushed.
- [Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/micron-megafab-project-faces-a-new-hurdle-as-activists-seek-a-benefits-deal/) - Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.
- [Hyundai Motor's Alabama suppliers use prison labor, affecting wages, worker safety: report](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-motors-alabama-suppliers-use-prison-labor-affecting-wages-worker-safety-report/) - Hyundai Motor's Alabama suppliers use prison labor, affecting wages, worker safety_ report - The Korea TimesDownload
- [Automotive giants sued over ‘unlawful and abusive’ Alabama labor practices](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/automotive-giants-sued-over-unlawful-and-abusive-alabama-labor-practices/) - A California-based non-profit is filing a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia over labor practices by auto suppliers in Alabama they say violate Golden State laws. Jobs to Move America (JMA), a progressive labor group, alleges that Hyundai and Kia are violating California’s Unfair Competition Law through “unconscionable labor practices.”
- [Nonprofit Sues Hyundai, Kia Over Allege Unfair Labor Practices](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/nonprofit-sues-hyundai-kia-over-allege-unfair-labor-practices/) - A nonprofit organization Thursday sued Orange County-based carmakers Hyundai and Kia, alleging the companies have been violating state law against unfair competition with the use of exploited labor from children, immigrants and inmates.
- [Lawsuit filed against Hyundai and Kia over alleged “severe labor exploitation”](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/lawsuit-filed-against-hyundai-and-kia-over-alleged-severe-labor-exploitation-2/) - Lawsuit filed against Hyundai and Kia over alleged “severe labor exploitation”Download
- [Hyundai, Kia Accused Of Employing Children As Young As 13](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-kia-accused-of-employing-children-as-young-as-13/) - PASADENA, CA — A nonprofit organization Thursday sued Orange County-based carmakers Hyundai and Kia, alleging the companies have been violating state law against unfair competition with the use of exploited labor from children, immigrants and inmates.
- [Hyundai and Kia Just Got Sued Over Allegations of Child Labor in Their U.S. Supply Chain](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-and-kia-just-got-sued-over-allegations-of-child-labor-in-their-u-s-supply-chain/) - Hyundai and Kia Just Got Sued Over Allegations of Child Labor in Their U.S. Supply Chain - AutoblogDownload
- [Study: Prison labor could be suppressing Montgomery-area automotive wages](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/study-prison-labor-could-be-suppressing-montgomery-area-automotive-wages/) - Mark Miller worked a dangerous job for more than four decades, but he said he’d never gotten hurt at work until his employment with an automotive supplier in Montgomery. In two years with the company, he broke his hand and four ribs in two separate accidents. Miller said he received no safety training before being
- [Behind Rising U.S. Sales, Hyundai and Kia Face Child Labor Allegations](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/behind-rising-u-s-sales-hyundai-and-kia-face-child-labor-allegations/) - Hyundai Motor and Kia have been sued for allegedly certifying to California and other government agencies that their vehicles met federal labor standards despite illegal labor practices in their U.S. supply chain, including child labor and prison labor.
- [OFF THE RAILS: A report from Jobs to Move America and Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute calls out working conditions at MTA contractor Kawasaki’s railcar manufacturing facilities. ](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/off-the-rails-a-report-from-jobs-to-move-america-and-cornell-universitys-climate-jobs-institute-calls-out-working-conditions-at-mta-contractor-kawasakis-railcar-manufacturing-f/) - PoliticoDownload
- [Workers who build NYC's subway cars face low pay, anti-union bosses, report alleges](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/workers-who-build-nycs-subway-cars-face-low-pay-anti-union-bosses-report-alleges/) - Workers who manufacture New York City’s new subway cars are paid less than the industry standard and face poor working conditions, contributing to rampant delays in the production of modern subway cars desperately needed by the MTA, according to report published Tuesday.Download
- [Midday News: Report Finds Poor Conditions Delaying MTA Train Deliveries, Subway Fare Moving to $3 in January, and We Catch Up on the Mayoral Race](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/midday-news-report-finds-poor-conditions-delaying-mta-train-deliveries-subway-fare-moving-to-3-in-january-and-we-catch-up-on-the-mayoral-race/) - A new report says unsafe working conditions at Kawasaki’s rail car plants in Nebraska and Yonkers are delaying train deliveries for the MTA. Meanwhile, the MTA board has approved a fare hike that will raise subway and bus rides to $3 starting in January, along with ending 30-day unlimited passes and coin payments on buses.
- [AL Company Helping Distant Communities, But Neglecting Their Own. Community Coalition Wants To Change That.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/al-company-helping-distant-communities-but-neglecting-their-own-community-coalition-wants-to-change-that/) - A new group called “Good Neighbors Alabama” has been making quite a splash over the last few weeks since it was formed, particularly regarding their protest of an Alabama-based company’s treatment — or rather mistreatment — of its employees after a detailed and critical report was released by Jobs To Move America. According to their website, Good Neighbors
- [Off the Rails: Inequality, Insecurity, and Unsafe Conditions at Kawasaki’s Yonkers Plant](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/off-the-rails-inequality-insecurity-and-unsafe-conditions-at-kawasakis-yonkers-plant/) - A newly released report from Jobs to Move America and Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute reveals troubling findings about working conditions at MTA contractor Kawasaki’s railcar manufacturing facilities in New York and Nebraska.Citing low pay, hazardous conditions and widespread experience of discrimination reported by workers Download
- [Coalition raises concerns surrounding manufacturer’s environmental, labor practices in small Alabama town](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/coalition-raises-concerns-surrounding-manufacturers-environmental-labor-practices-in-small-alabama-town/) - A sign welcoming drivers to Tallassee, Alabama, calls the town a “Treasure on the Tallapoosa.” Members of a coalition of community, advocacy and labor organizations that held a press conference there recently would say they’re trying to keep it that way.
- [Kawasaki’s Yonkers Plant Among Facilities Cited for Low Wages and Safety Concerns](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/kawasakis-yonkers-plant-among-facilities-cited-for-low-wages-and-safety-concerns/) - For nearly 40 years, Kawasaki Heavy Industries has manufactured subway cars in a former Otis Elevator building, located in the heart of Yonkers since 1986, providing jobs for roughly 500 workers in a non-union facility.However, a study released on Tuesday September 30th, shows a different side of the Japanese conglomerate’s railcar facilities.Download
- [AL manufacturing company faces allegations of 'extreme conditions' at plant](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/al-manufacturing-company-faces-allegations-of-extreme-conditions-at-plant/) - Labor rights activists and past employees of an Alabama water meter manufacturing plant are backing a new report that accuses the company of long hours, major injuries, unfair treatment and high levels of heavy metal waste disposal into the local environment.
- [Advocates demand Micron commit to worker and environmental protections](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/advocates-demand-micron-commit-to-worker-and-environmental-protections/) - At a recent press conference, 16 organizations including Jobs to Move America delivered a petition demanding a 120-day public comment period on the recently released Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and unveiled a “Community Vision." JMA's Khadeejah Ahmad stressed that “Central New Yorkers deserve high-paying, family-sustaining jobs” and demanded workforce investment that prioritizes historically disadvantaged
- [California lawsuit seeks to ban sale, marketing of Hyundai vehicles in the state until “unconscionable” labor practices end](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/california-lawsuit-seeks-to-ban-sale-marketing-of-hyundai-vehicles-in-the-state-until-unconscionable-labor-practices-end/) - A lawsuit filed in California court is seeking to ban the sale of Hyundai vehicles in the state until the company’s labor practices are reformed. Jobs to Move America, a non-profit that advocates for quality jobs and “responsible” public investment, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday. Hyundai Motor America, Hyundai
- [Work release programs depress wages at Hyundai suppliers, study suggests](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/work-release-programs-depress-wages-at-hyundai-suppliers-study-suggests-2/) - "I got hurt on the job with my hand, snapped a bone,” Mark Miller said. “They bandaged me up, told me to keep working, so I did.” During a press conference on Thursday, Miller recounted his time participating in a work release program, describing a general lack of safety precautions, insufficient training, and the constant
- [“Hyundai Calls It a ‘Clean Car,’ but the Production Remains Dirty” at the LA Auto Show](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-calls-it-a-clean-car-but-the-production-remains-dirty-at-the-la-auto-show/) - “Hyundai Calls It a ‘Clean Car,’ but the Production Remains Dirty” at the LA Auto ShowDownload
- [California Lawsuit Wants To Ban Hyundai And Kia Sales Over Child Labor Allegations](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/california-lawsuit-wants-to-ban-hyundai-and-kia-sales-over-child-labor-allegations/) - California Lawsuit Wants To Ban Hyundai And Kia Sales Over Child Labor Allegations | CarscoopsDownload
- [Hyundai, Kia Sued for Alleged Child and Prison Labor at U.S. Supplier Plants](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/hyundai-kia-sued-for-alleged-child-and-prison-labor-at-u-s-supplier-plants/) - Hyundai, Kia Sued for Alleged Child and Prison Labor at U.S. Supplier PlantsDownload
- [Labor lawsuit says O.C.-based Hyundai, Kia are exploiting children, immigrants, inmates](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-lawsuit-says-o-c-based-hyundai-kia-are-exploiting-children-immigrants-inmates-2/) - A nonprofit organization on Friday sued Orange County-based carmakers Hyundai and Kia, alleging the companies have been violating state law against unfair competition with the use of exploited labor from children, immigrants and inmates.
- [Labor lawsuit says O.C.-based Hyundai, Kia are exploiting children, immigrants, inmates](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-lawsuit-says-o-c-based-hyundai-kia-are-exploiting-children-immigrants-inmates/) - A nonprofit organization on Friday sued Orange County-based carmakers Hyundai and Kia, alleging the companies have been violating state law against unfair competition with the use of exploited labor from children, immigrants and inmates.
- [Metro can move forward on subway car plans ahead of Olympics after deal](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/metro-can-move-forward-on-subway-car-plans-ahead-of-olympics-after-deal/) - Metro can move forward on subway car plans ahead of Olympics after deal - Los Angeles TimesDownload View the article on the LA Times website here.
- [How to Power Good Union Jobs in the Clean Energy Economy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-to-power-good-union-jobs-in-the-clean-energy-economy/) - Jobs to Move America and Tennessee for All are proud to play a role in holding corporations accountable through deep coalition building and meaningful policy change in a region that was built on the free labor of enslaved Black people, sustained after the Civil War by anti-union laws that disproportionately entrenched Black and Brown communities in a brutal
- [How Labor Unions Came to Define the L.A. Immigration Protests](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-labor-unions-came-to-define-the-l-a-immigration-protests/) - Madeline Janis, who co-founded the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, helped drive the city’s metamorphosis into a Democratic-led municipality driven by immigrant-centered unions. She is now a co-director of Jobs to Move America, a nonprofit that works to raise labor standards on publicly supported projects. With patient organizing, she suggests, attitudes can change.
- [Dozens of Organizations Urge Senate to Vote No on Bad Budget Bill that Would Raise Costs for Americans, Increase Transportation Pollution](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/dozens-of-organizations-urge-senate-to-vote-no-on-bad-budget-bill-that-would-raise-costs-for-americans-increase-transportation-pollution/) - Organizations including Jobs to Move America signed onto a letter against the recent budget reconcilliation bill in Congress that raises costs for American families, pollutes our communities, and eliminates hundreds of thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs to deliver massive tax breaks for billionaires.
- [We need more time to comment on Micron report](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/we-need-more-time-to-comment-on-micron-report/) - Organizations including Jobs to Move America are calling for a longer, more inclusive review process for an environmental impact report released for Micron's facility planned in Central New York.
- [Is AI coming for your job? Maybe. Here’s what to expect and how to prepare](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/is-ai-coming-for-your-job-maybe-heres-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare/) - Will Tucker, Southern program director for Jobs to Move America, a policy center that advocates for workers, said automation and offshoring have already harmed manufacturing-industry employees as companies search for the cheapest labor route.
- [As Trump remakes the federal government, what might that mean for Micron’s NY project?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/as-trump-remakes-the-federal-government-what-might-that-mean-for-microns-ny-project/) - “The vision for the CHIPS Act was to build our domestic semiconductor capacity while at the same time bringing good jobs to our communities,” said Khadeejah Ahmad, Syracuse organizing manager for Jobs to Move America. “Removing these types of requirements would only really benefit wealthy investors who will be pocketing the money via increased profits.”
- [Leveraging Public Funding to Strengthen Worker Protections](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/leveraging-public-funding-to-strengthen-worker-protections/) - The successful union drive at New Flyer demonstrates how employers listen to their workers much better when their public funding is on the line.
- [Celebrating the Black labor movement in America](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/celebrating-the-black-labor-movement-in-america/) - Troy Washington, JMA's Assistant Director for Media, joined CBS New York to discuss Black History Month and the role of Black workers in the labor movement.
- [New Coalition Calls for Justice in Lithium Valley Development](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-coalition-calls-for-justice-in-lithium-valley-development/) - Made Up of Environmental and Social Justice Organizations and Unions, Valle Unido Por Beneficios Comunitarios is Speaking Out on Behalf of Northend, Valley
- [What California and RFK Jr. have in common](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/what-california-and-rfk-jr-have-in-common/) - Valle Unido por Beneficios Comunitarios was mentioned in Politco's California Climate newsletter.
- [Alabama says they are safe enough for KFC, but too dangerous for parole](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/alabama-says-they-are-safe-enough-for-kfc-but-too-dangerous-for-parole/) - In a lawsuit in federal court, 10 current and former Alabama inmates are arguing that the state systemically denies parole to people on work release because the state benefits by keeping a big piece of each paycheck.
- [Micron’s $6B CHIPS funding should have more strings attached, critics say](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/microns-6b-chips-funding-should-have-more-strings-attached-critics-say/) - Jobs to Move America—who are part of the CNY Good Jobs for Equitable Access coalition organizing ahead of Micron's New York construction—are concerned that Micron hasn't been clear about what a "good job" is before moving into an area with "one of the highest poverty rates in the country."
- [Why 'Lithium Valley' holds clues for the country](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/why-lithium-valley-holds-clues-for-the-country/) - "Part of the unveiling of the Valle Unido coalition this week was a statement about community benefits, which the corporations have talked about doing in a voluntary way, and the community is demanding that that be mandatory. That need for it to be mandatory is a reflection of distrust."
- [Imperial Valley residents launch coalition to demand accountability from lithium companies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/imperial-valley-residents-launch-coalition-to-demand-accountability-from-lithium-companies/) - A new coalition is calling on Imperial Valley companies to make commitments to the community.
- [Lanzan líderes comunitarios nueva coalición](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/lanzan-lideres-comunitarios-nueva-coalicion/) - Valle Unido, una nueva coalición de grupos comunitarios, laborales y ambientales, hace un llamado a las empresas que buscan extraer litio a asumir compromisos vinculantes para un Valle del Litio.
- [Labor advocates sue Metro over $730-million contract to build subway cars. Will it hurt Olympic planning?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-advocates-sue-metro-over-730-million-contract-to-build-subway-cars-will-it-hurt-olympic-planning/) - Jobs to Move America is suing to force the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to rebid a $730-million order of subway cars.
- [How Much Will the CHIPS Act Help the Workers Who Make Them?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-much-will-the-chips-act-help-the-workers-who-make-them/) - Despite initially having high hopes, deputy director of Jobs to Move America Miranda Nelson expresses frustration with Commerce’s rollout of the CHIPS policy.
- [The Win for EV Workers in the South You Didn’t Hear About](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-win-for-ev-workers-in-the-south-you-didnt-hear-about/) - The rapid road to contract ratification at New Flyer in Anniston, Alabama was made possible by a years-long campaign by CWA and a coalition of community groups including Jobs to Move America
- [Birmingham Mayor Woodfin agrees to federal “Good Jobs Principles”](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/birmingham-mayor-woodfin-agrees-to-federal-good-jobs-principles/) - Su also thanked “union leaders for showing up here and every single day” and said “Jobs to Move America and Alabama Arise both helped make this trip so rich and meaningful for me.”
- [Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su visits New Flyer plant in Anniston](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/acting-secretary-of-labor-julie-su-visits-new-flyer-plant-in-anniston/) - New Flyer workers in Anniston unionized in January. The successful union card check followed a community benefits agreement brokered by Jobs to Move America which required New Flyer to be neutral and voluntarily recognize unions with majority support.
- [There’s Good News About the Labor Movement in the South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/theres-good-news-about-the-labor-movement-in-the-south/) - The Anniston factory was New Flyer’s only Deep South facility and therefore its last in the United States to unionize. The campaign took nearly 10 years; the ball got rolling after Jobs to Move America, an alt-labor and civil rights group in California, sued New Flyer for not reporting wages and benefits as required under
- [Workers at an electric bus plant in Anniston unionized and won double-digit raises](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/workers-at-an-electric-bus-plant-in-anniston-unionized-and-won-double-digit-raises/) - The workers’ successful unionization and new contract comes after New Flyer signed a community benefits agreement with Jobs to Move America, a policy center focused on economic justice, as part of a lawsuit settlement in May 2022.
- [Another EV Factory Has Unionized Boosting Labor’s Push In US South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/another-ev-factory-has-unionized-boosting-labors-push-in-us-south/) - The roughly 600 workers at the New Flyer factory formed a union with the Communications Workers of America earlier this year, joining a string of US organizing victories at its parent NFI Group Inc., North America’s biggest manufacturer of transit buses. Another EV Factory Has Unionized Boosting Labor’s Push In US SouthDownload
- [Has Organized Labor Finally Cracked the South?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/has-organized-labor-finally-cracked-the-south/) - New Flyer ultimately reversed course in part because of a series of legal actions brought by a collection of labor groups led by the nonprofit pro-union group Jobs to Move America.
- [New Flyer Workers in Anniston Successfully Unionize and Secure First Contract](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-flyer-workers-in-anniston-successfully-unionize-and-secure-first-contract/) - This milestone follows New Flyer’s signing of a community benefits agreement with Jobs to Move America in May 2022, as part of a lawsuit settlement. The agreement mandates the company to enhance Spanish language communications, establish a discrimination complaint system, and ensure that at least 45% of new hires come from historically disadvantaged groups.
- [The Art of the Green New Deal](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-art-of-the-green-new-deal/) - Jobs to Move America is pioneering an innovative labor strategy that turns public investments in green infrastructure and manufacturing into opportunities for union organizing and better working conditions.
- ['We're Gonna Win': Alabama Mercedes Workers Begin UAW Vote](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/were-gonna-win-alabama-mercedes-workers-begin-uaw-vote/) - A victory in the Southern state, said one organizer, “would show workers across all different industries that they can stand up together and fight for more.”
- [Alabama Mercedes-Benz union vote underway: What’s at stake in this historic labor fight?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/alabama-mercedes-benz-union-vote-underway-whats-at-stake-in-this-historic-labor-fight/) - Vote totals are expected to be available soon in the historic election that follows a whirlwind five months as union organizers signed up a majority of workers at the factory, which has been long resistant to union activity.
- [Could the Union Victory at VW Set Off a Wave?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/could-the-union-victory-at-vw-set-off-a-wave/) - By voting to join the United Automobile Workers, Volkswagen workers in Tennessee have given the union something it has never had: a factory-wide foothold at a major foreign automaker in the South. Madeline Janis, co-executive director of Jobs to Move America, said the momentum could travel beyond the auto industry to other manufacturers.
- [Biden Administration tweaks regulations for how states, cities can use federal funding](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/biden-administration-tweaks-regulations-for-how-states-cities-can-use-federal-funding/) - Federal News Network’s Eric White spoke on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the assistant director for policy at the union-oriented Jobs to Move America, Valerie Lizarraga, about a recent update by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to the Uniform Grants Guidance.
- [Why Philanthropy Must Support Labor Justice](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/why-philanthropy-must-support-labor-justice/) - Jobs to Move America is advancing the community benefits agreement model, worker standards boards, and other innovative tools that advance worker rights, good living wages, and green jobs where unions don’t exist yet. These models are built for real change and give an authentic voice to workers—especially Black workers.
- [Big Day for NLC and Municipal Governments: Final Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Grants Guidance Released](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/big-day-for-nlc-and-municipal-governments-final-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-uniform-grants-guidance-released/) - The White House announced the final Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Grants Guidance, which is designed to create a streamlined set of rules and regulations for federal grants that ensure. The announcement brings a big win for cities, towns and villages that receive federal grants in terms of how they can use federal funds.
- [New York MTA Vendor Kawasaki Says Revealing Pay Data Could ‘Agitate’ Staff](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-york-mta-vendor-kawasaki-says-revealing-pay-data-could-agitate-staff/) - JMA has filed a lawsuit against New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority for failing to release records about railcar vendor Kawasaki’s pay and benefits. Kawasaki agreed to a U.S. Employment Plan in 2018 when MTA awarded it a contract to build new subway cars for New York. Read more about the lawsuit in Bloomberg.
- [Nearly Three Decades of Data on Women in Construction is Missing — Here’s How That Could Change](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/nearly-three-decades-of-data-on-women-in-construction-is-missing-heres-how-that-could-change/) - “We cannot count on any private company, which is focused on the bottom line to, on its own, implement these national priorities, like hiring more women,” said Madeline Janis, executive director of labor organization Jobs to Move America. “If there is not good reporting and follow up, there's nothing.”
- [Commentary: Green Transit, Green Jobs bill supports New York's goals for climate and economy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/commentary-green-transit-green-jobs-bill-supports-new-yorks-goals-for-climate-and-economy/) - The Green Transit, Green Jobs bill will help New York take a massive step toward a clean transportation sector while creating family-sustaining jobs for workers in communities that need them the most.
- [JMA Mentioned on "El Genio Lucas" Radio Show](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/jma-mentioned-on-el-genio-lucas-radio-show/) - JMA's work in the South was mentioned on "El Genio Lucas," a Spanish-language syndicated radio show that airs on more than 90 stations across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Patricia Genio Lucas23Download
- [How Birmingham reflects an entwined struggle for civil and labor rights](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-birmingham-reflects-an-entwined-struggle-for-civil-and-labor-rights/) - JMA Co-Executive Director Erica Iheme talks about how Black history is a history of labor rights in Alabama.
- [Labor leaders: Demand a better Micron deal](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-leaders-demand-a-better-micron-deal/) - Microchip companies seeking public funding from the CHIPS and Science Act need to do better in creating good jobs for local communities.
- [A challenge to American business: fight for infrastructure spending, or suffer the consequences.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-challenge-to-american-business-fight-for-infrastructure-spending-or-suffer-the-consequences/) - With a $2 trillion infrastructure package on the line, businesses need to step up and fight for the common good in the form of public infrastructure spending -- or suffer the consequences," writes Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America, in Forbes.
- [Administration scraps local-hiring plan for public works](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/administration-scraps-local-hiring-plan-for-public-works/) - “These huge public investments are an opportunity to create new pathways for people to gain skills and have jobs that aren’t minimum wage, that don’t require skills and don’t have a future,” said Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America. “Eliminate local hiring programs and you cut off this huge potential method of
- [USPS should seriously consider letting Milwaukee build its new mail trucks](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/usps-should-seriously-consider-letting-milwaukee-build-its-new-mail-trucks/) - The Service and city government could work closely with REV Group to draft up a jobs creation program similar to Jobs to Move America’s U.S. Employment Plan (USEP).
- [Can Trump succeed where Reagan failed?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/can-trump-succeed-where-reagan-failed/) - Determined to stamp out sanctuary cities, Trump and congressional Republicans plod on, but the anti-apartheid battles of the 1980s demonstrate that such movements are easily cowed by presidents.
- [A new divestment movement against Trump gears up](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-new-divestment-movement-against-trump-gears-up/) - Jobs to Move America is releasing a report on June 27 that details this fight between Reagan and cities over apartheid and how it mirrors current battles with the Trump administration over issues like sanctuary status for immigrants. Two cities in particular tested Reagan back then—Baltimore and New York City—to somewhat mixed results.
- [How to keep the robots from taking our jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-to-keep-the-robots-from-taking-our-jobs/) - "Amid the public discussion of the changing nature of work and the possibility that computers and robots could displace more American workers, a crucial fact has largely escaped notice: Taxpayers are often subsidizing the transition to automation," write Jose Garcia and Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America, in POLITICO.
- [When cities fought the feds over apartheid](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/when-cities-fought-the-feds-over-apartheid/) - 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 the worldwide fight against apartheid in South Africa.
- [Amazon, union organizers face off again in Alabama](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [Black American bus drivers at risk](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/black-american-bus-drivers-at-risk/) - “This pandemic has made it really clear we aren’t prepared for this crisis, just as we aren’t prepared for the climate crisis,” Miranda Nelson, NY director, said.
- [Philly, L.A. transit agencies face questions over power plans](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/philly-l-a-transit-agencies-face-questions-over-power-plans/) - 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 today’s investments will impact the adoption of renewable energy sources in the future.
- [Alabama’s corporate subsidies cost $4 billion over three decades, report says](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/alabamas-corporate-subsidies-cost-4-billion-over-three-decades-report-says/) - A report released Wednesday by Jobs to Move America calls Alabama’s system for corporate tax incentives “exactly the wrong way” to improve the state’s economy, citing $4 billion in giveaways between 1993 and 2020 with scant information about what taxpayers have received in return.
- [A more inclusive Global Climate Action Summit can stop us from ‘losing Earth’](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-more-inclusive-global-climate-action-summit-can-stop-us-from-losing-earth/) - 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 to ensure that those manufacturing electric buses are paid living wages.
- [A huge EV factory is coming to west Tennessee. Here’s how locals are ensuring they benefit.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-huge-ev-factory-is-coming-to-west-tennessee-heres-how-locals-are-ensuring-they-benefit/) - JMA's Will Tucker talks about how the community benefits agreement approach to the transition to green energy can work in the growing "Battery Belt" in the South.
- [Reclaiming the Progressive Potential of Procurement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/reclaiming-the-progressive-potential-of-procurement/) - A longstanding misinterpretation of procurement law keeps cities and states from using federal money to advance local policy goals. JMA's Madeline Janis and UCLA School of Law Professor of Legal Ethics Scott Cummings on how groups like our Local Opportunities Coalition are pushing the Biden admin to fix this.
- [Scraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/scraping-away-the-anti-worker-anti-racial-equity-vestiges-of-the-reagan-era/) - Sarah Anderson writes about how outdated Uniform Guidance policies reinforce historic racial and economic inequities and what the Local Opportunities Coalition is doing to update them.
- [U.A.W. Strike Gains Could Reverberate Far Beyond Autos](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/u-a-w-strike-gains-could-reverberate-far-beyond-autos/) - JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis offers some insight on UAW agreements and its effects on workers in the EV transition.
- [UAW wins big concessions from Big Three. Are foreign automakers next?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/uaw-wins-big-concessions-from-big-three-are-foreign-automakers-next/) - JMA Southern Program Director Will Tucker speaks on what the UAW agreements with the Big Three automakers mean for manufacturers looking to move to the South.
- [UAW's record deal could boost others' wages as labor notches another victory](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/uaws-record-deal-could-boost-others-wages-as-labor-notches-another-victory/) - JMA Senior Researcher Marcos Feldman speaks on what the UAW victories mean to non-union workers and wages.
- [Ford’s U.A.W. Deal Will Raise Costs While Easing Labor Strife](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/fords-u-a-w-deal-will-raise-costs-while-easing-labor-strife/) - JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis remarks on what Ford's agreement with UAW means for the rest of the EV industry.
- [The South — and its batteries — looms over the UAW strike](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-south-and-its-batteries-looms-over-the-uaw-strike/) - As the bourgeoning "battery belt" in the South becomes central to the UAW strike, JMA Southern Program Director Will Tucker discussed the manufacturing landscape in the region.
- [Trump and Biden's Michigan visits will present competing strategies for winning union voters](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/trump-and-bidens-michigan-visits-will-present-competing-strategies-for-winning-union-voters/) - As Republicans exploit the UAW strike, JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis we need to focus on how the transition to electric vehicles affects workers.
- [The car workers' strike in the US is stress-testing the idea that green change and good jobs go hand in hand](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-car-workers-strike-in-the-us-is-stress-testing-the-idea-that-green-change-and-good-jobs-go-hand-in-hand/) - JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis spoke to the Danish newspaper about the UAW strikes and U.S manufacturing.
- [UAW strike exposes tensions between Biden’s goals of tackling climate change and supporting unions](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/uaw-strike-exposes-tensions-between-bidens-goals-of-tackling-climate-change-and-supporting-unions/) - In order to have a healthy economy, more people need to see themselves in jobs that help address climate change, says JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis.
- [Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/battle-over-electric-vehicles-is-central-to-auto-strike/) - The battle between UAW and Big 3 Automakers is a battle for setting the standards of the electric car industry. JMA's Madeline Janis spoke about the set the importance of the UAW strike.
- [Opinion | Alabama improves transparency in Economic Tax Incentives](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/opinion-alabama-improves-transparency-in-economic-tax-incentives/) - Tax incentives lure businesses to set up shop in the state in order to boost job creation. But we need more information on wages and benefits to ensure we are not giving taxpayers’ money to bad actors. This legislation is a step in the right direction.
- [Why The Assumption That Manufacturing Jobs Are "Good" Is Dead Wrong](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/why-the-assumption-that-manufacturing-jobs-are-good-is-dead-wrong/) - “Made in the U.S.A.” tells you nothing about the quality of jobs manufacturers are creating domestically. JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis talks about the decline of U.S. manufacturing jobs, and how community benefits agreements and good policy can change this.
- [The Green Transit, Green Jobs bill can boost New York manufacturing](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-green-transit-green-jobs-bill-can-boost-new-york-manufacturing/) - New York can use its purchasing power to turn around a decadeslong decline in manufacturing with Green Transit, Green Jobs, which ensures that transit agencies, their unionized workforce, manufacturing workers and communities benefit from the transition to zero-emission buses.
- [Biden's Labor-Climate Dilemma](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/bidens-labor-climate-dilemma/) - It can be tricky balancing the needs of environmental groups and unions, but it can be done. JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis spoke to the Atlantic's Steven Greenhouse about what the Biden administration can do to create good manufacturing jobs.
- [US Clean Energy Projects Need Public Buy-in. Community Benefits Agreements Can Help](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/us-clean-energy-projects-need-public-buy-in-community-benefits-agreements-can-help/) - The article mentions how JMA's community benefits agreements and other project agreements can promote safe, equitable clean energy development and guaranteeing local benefits (like jobs and improved infrastructure) to garner support among nearby communities.
- [Alabama’s new transparency law is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/alabamas-new-transparency-law-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-but-more-needs-to-be-done-2/) - The recently enacted Transparency in Incentives Act requires the state Department of Commerce to disclose online names of companies that receive economic development incentives. Up to this point, none of Alabama’s state subsidy programs were transparent, despite costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
- [Alabama’s new transparency law is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/alabamas-new-transparency-law-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-but-more-needs-to-be-done/) - JMA's Patricia Todd and Good Jobs First's Kasia Tarczynska wrote about the Transparency in Incentives Act, which passed in the Alabama Legislature after years of pressure from advocates.
- [Guest opinion: Alabama improves transparency in economic tax incentives; more is needed](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/guest-opinion-alabama-improves-transparency-in-economic-tax-incentives-more-is-needed/) - JMA's Patricia Todd wrote about a bill that just passed in the Alabama Legislature that will improve transparency in state tax incentives.
- [OPINION: Racism is in the water in Jackson, but we can’t give up on the South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/opinion-racism-is-in-the-water-in-jackson-but-we-cant-give-up-on-the-south/) - JMA's Angela Dawson, a life-long Mississippi resident, writes about the Jackson Water crisis and the inequalities of our infrastructure system.
- [Winds of Change: Developing a Domestic Supply Chain & Good Jobs in the Offshore Wind Sector](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/winds-of-change-developing-a-domestic-supply-chain-good-jobs-in-the-offshore-wind-secto/) - JMA's New York Policy Manager Mo-Yain Tham wrote about how the booming offshore wind industry needs to create good jobs and center communities.
- [Green jobs must be good jobs. America’s investment in the energy transition should restore the pathway to the middle class](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/green-jobs-must-be-good-jobs-americas-investment-in-the-energy-transition-should-restore-the-pathway-to-the-middle-class/) - This piece in Fortune from Ford Foundation president Darren Walker mentions JMA's CBA with New Flyer as an example of a creative solution to ensure that green jobs are good jobs.
- [Clean electric school buses are healthier for kids, but there could be a downside for workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/clean-electric-school-buses-are-healthier-for-kids-but-there-could-be-a-downside-for-workers/) - JMA's Ian Elder discussed how the transition to electric school buses needs to protect workers.
- [New public investments are creating new jobs. Let’s make sure they’re good ones.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-public-investments-are-creating-new-jobs-lets-make-sure-theyre-good-ones/) - In the Public Interest covered the essay JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis co-wrote for the American Prospect about creating "industrial policy for all."
- [Will ‘Made in America’ Really Lead to Good Jobs?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/will-made-in-america-really-lead-to-good-jobs/) - JMA's Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis co-wrote this piece about what we haven’t done, and what we should do, to ensure that "new industrial strategy" actually benefits workers.
- [Job Quality in Alabama and Mississippi’s Manufacturing Facilities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/job-quality-in-alabama-and-mississippis-manufacturing-facilities/) - JMA's Angela Dawson talks about our recent report about manufacturing jobs in Alabama and Mississippi.
- [Ensuring the Green Jobs are Good Jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/ensuring-the-green-jobs-are-good-jobs/) - The issue is that despite this booming industrial development, communities in the South continue to be chronically impoverished. Corporations take advantage of a system that includes some of the lowest wages in the nation, along with a relative lack of safe working conditions and training opportunities.
- [<strong>Southern labor ain’t cheap: It costs</strong>](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/southern-labor-aint-cheap-it-costs/) - In our house, we believed that able-bodied men and women should work and become productive citizens in their communities. We believed that America owes each of its citizens an equal opportunity to get an education in order to prepare him or herself for the workplace. And, finally, we are convinced that when America pays its
- [Mississippi manufacturing workers report low job quality](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mississippi-manufacturing-workers-report-low-job-quality/) - Policy center Jobs to Move America has polled manufacturing workers across Mississippi and Alabama to rate their satisfaction with their current job. Workers reported some of their needs are being met, but there are several areas that fall below what is desired in a quality job. Emily Erickson with the University of Warwick says those
- [Reagan-era regulations hold back good jobs policies in states and cities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/reagan-era-regulations-hold-back-good-jobs-policies-in-states-and-cities/) - New America discusses how Uniform Guidance regulations inhibit state and municipal efforts to support job quality and worker power through infrastructure spending, and how a coalition led by JMA is working to change this.
- [A Closer Look at the Critical Minerals and Battery Components White Paper](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-closer-look-at-the-critical-minerals-and-battery-components-white-paper/) - The Treasury and the IRS released a white paper previewing their tax guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act's EV tax credits. JMA recommends attaching good jobs standards to the rules.
- [Editorial: Taxpayer money can build transit projects — and a stronger middle class. L.A. Metro shows how](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/editorial-taxpayer-money-can-build-transit-projects-and-a-stronger-middle-class-l-a-metro-shows-how/) - Taxpayers’ money should deliver the most good. We can build new transportation projects and propel entry-level workers into solid middle-class careers. Good for Metro for leading the way.
- [With the Environmental Bond Act’s Passage, Let’s Ensure the Green Transition Creates Good Jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/with-the-environmental-bond-acts-passage-lets-ensure-the-green-transition-creates-good-jobs/) - JMA's Farah Mehreen Ahmad wrote about what the passage of the Bond Act means for New York.
- [The Electric School Bus Is the Climate Hero We Need](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-electric-school-bus-is-the-climate-hero-we-need/) - JMA California Director Héctor Huezo wrote the blog with Earthjustice's Yasmine Agelidis how electric school buses are an opportunity to fight climate change, make healthy air for kids and create good jobs.
- [‘Made In America’ Should Not Mean ‘Made Under Injustice’](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/made-in-america-should-not-mean-made-under-injustice/) - The Biden administration is making historic investments in U.S. manufacturing–through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act, and by increasing domestic content requirements under Buy America laws. These investments are important, as the disappearance of U.S. manufacturing has caused
- [Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/industrial-policy-without-industrial-unions/) - Coalitions like Jobs to Move America are focused on winning community benefit agreements in places like Illinois, where labor and environmental groups are calling on Lion Electric to allow employees to decide on union representation.
- [Group calls for putting an end to alleged use of child labor at Hyundai suppliers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/group-calls-for-putting-an-end-to-alleged-use-of-child-labor-at-hyundai-suppliers/) - JMA is part of group of 24 regional and national labor, community, civil rights, faith and environmental justice groups calling on Hyundai to ensure that child labor is not being used in any of its supplier plants, as reports of the practice are being investigated.
- [Minimum wage debate continues in Alabama](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/minimum-wage-debate-continues-in-alabama/) - JMA Southern Policy Manager and former Alabama State Representative Patricia Todd weighed in on Alabama's $7.25 minimum wage.
- [U.S. Secretary of Labor makes visit in Capital City to discuss ways to improve work conditions in the Magnolia State](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/u-s-secretary-of-labor-makes-visit-in-capital-city-to-discuss-ways-to-improve-work-conditions-in-the-magnolia-state/) - U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh visited Jackson State University (JSU) on Thursday, June 30 for a panel with labor officials and community organizers.
- [DOE: Here’s what’s happened to EV, renewable, fossil jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/doe-heres-whats-happened-to-ev-renewable-fossil-jobs/) - Jobs to Move America expressed concern over the patchy levels of diversity in clean energy industries, “especially for people of color and women.”
- [Empowering Cities to Use Federal Funds to Create Local Jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/empowering-cities-to-use-federal-funds-to-create-local-jobs/) - As the Biden administration begins to distribute infrastructure funding to states and cities, elected officials and contracting agencies will play a key role in using this money to create good-paying jobs for their communities. But one federal regulation is standing in the way of local economic prosperity.
- [In the Public Interest newsletter 5/31/22](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/in-the-public-interest-newsletter-5-31-22/) - In a major development with nationwide implications for fair employment and fair contracting, New Flyer, one of the U.S.’s largest bus manufacturers “has agreed to hire and promote more women and racial minorities, a deal that worker advocates say is a model for ensuring that federal funds to replace diesel buses with battery-powered buses boosts
- [Building Our New Electric Fleet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/building-our-new-electric-fleet/) - An activist group prevailed on a major bus manufacturer to hire its workers from local, historically disadvantaged communities.
- [JMA Press Conference: 1st multi-state Community Benefits Agreement signed](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/jma-press-conference-1st-multi-state-community-benefits-agreement-signed/) - Jobs to Move America, Greater Birmingham Ministries, and New Flyer of America Inc. – the largest bus manufacturer in North America and leader in electric buses – have announced a multi-state agreement to support workers and local communities surrounding certain New Flyer
- [LA Metro-Contracted Bus Co. Settles Wage Fraud Suit For $7M](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/la-metro-contracted-bus-co-settles-wage-fraud-suit-for-7m/) - A bus company has agreed to pay $7 million and promised to hire and promote marginalized employees after it was sued for failing to meet wage and benefit standards.
- [Labor leaders hail bus maker pact to hire more women, minority workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-leaders-hail-bus-maker-pact-to-hire-more-women-minority-workers-2/) - 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](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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 producer of electric buses.
- [Labor leaders hail bus maker pact to hire more women, minority workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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 in struggling communities.
- [Jobs from Washington’s big infrastructure law will be ‘more fairly distributed’ thanks to this one provision, advocates say](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/jobs-from-washingtons-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 important step of clarifying into law that cities and states, when they’re doing transportation projects,
- [BYD Motors Signs Community Benefits Agreement with SMART Local 105 and JMA](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/byd-motors-signs-community-benefits-agreement-with-smart-local-105-and-jma/) - This agreement is critical to addressing long-standing inequities in the manufacturing industry, given that women and African Americans are underrepresented in the industry, and that returning citizens frequently face harmful stigmas when trying to find employment.
- [Electric Bus Makers Pave the Way to Union Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/this-womans-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 reform using a racial and economic justice lens. The organization has operations across the country,
- [In Bessemer and the South, Black Workers Hold the Key](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [CBA proponents here seeking first win](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cba-proponents-here-seeking-first-win/) - One of the architects of a groundbreaking 2001 CBA for the Staples Center in Los Angeles was a community activist and attorney named Madeline Janis, now executive director of Jobs to Move America, which advocates for investment in public transportation projects.
- [Green New Deal or Stale Old Tax-Break Scam? Getting Electric Vehicle Incentives Right](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/green-new-deal-or-stale-old-tax-break-scam-getting-electric-vehicle-incentives-right/) - Jobs to Move America's U.S. Employment Plan is mentioned as a way to build good jobs and equity into the public purchasing process.
- [Looking for work? What Biden’s infrastructure bill could mean for California job seekers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/looking-for-work-what-bidens-infrastructure-bill-could-mean-for-california-job-seekers/) - JMA is mentioned in this article about the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
- [U.S. School Buses May Never Be The Same Thanks to Biden’s Infrastructure Plan](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/u-s-school-buses-may-never-be-the-same-thanks-to-bidens-infrastructure-plan/) - The article highlights JMA's work with allies Chispa and Sierra Club in advocating for electric school buses as well as putting a spotlight on UAW members at school bus factories in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- [American workers throw NFI under the bus](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/american-workers-throw-nfi-under-the-bus/) - Company, CEO dispute claims of racism, bias
- [Now is the Time to Unleash the Power of Cities and States to Build Back Better](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/now-is-the-time-to-unleash-the-power-of-cities-and-states-to-build-back-better/) - The bipartisan infrastructure bill currently in Congress presents an opportunity to rebuild from the pandemic and prepare for the worsening climate crisis.
- [Virtual event to focus on labor rights in the South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/virtual-event-to-focus-on-labor-rights-in-the-south/) - An upcoming virtual event to feature Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is to center on work in Alabama and across the South to build sport for labor rights, corporate and government accountability.
- [We must invest in a transportation transition — and workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/we-must-invest-in-a-transportation-transition-and-workers/) - Transportation is the largest source of climate-disrupting pollution in the U.S. Fortunately, electric vehicle (EV) technology has progressed to the point where we can now start replacing tens of millions of fossil-fuel vehicles with EVs.
- [Game Changer Award awarded to Birmingham native Erica Iheme](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/game-changer-award-awarded-to-birmingham-native-erica-iheme/) - The inaugural Game Changer Award from the National Women Innovating Labor Leadership (WILL) Empower program was awarded last Friday to Erica Iheme, the southern director at Jobs to Move America.
- [5 Questions with Patricia Todd: Alabama’s Transparency Problem](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/5-questions-with-patricia-todd-alabamas-transparency-problem/) - Good Job First speaks with Jobs to Move America's Southern Policy Director about her new report about the lack of transparency around Alabama's corporate tax incentives.
- [How Corporate Subsidies Sink Small Businesses](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-corporate-subsidies-sink-small-businesses/) - Pat Garofalo's Boondoggle newsletter covers Patricia Todd's report on corporate tax giveaways in Alabama.
- [AL Politics This Week: Dark Days (Guest: Former State Rep. Patricia Todd)](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/al-politics-this-week-dark-days-guest-former-state-rep-patricia-todd/) - Former state Rep. Patricia Todd Zooms in to discuss Alabama tax dollars being given away secretly to major companies.
- [The V - September 5, 2021 - Guest: Former State Rep. Patricia Todd](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-v-september-5-2021-guest-former-state-rep-patricia-todd/) - Jobs to Move America Southern Policy Manager Patricia Todd appears on The V to discuss our report on Alabama's corporate tax giveaways.
- [20 graduate from BYD and SMART’s manufacturing apprenticeship program](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/20-graduate-from-byd-and-smarts-manufacturing-apprenticeship-program/) - BYD and SMART Local 105 announced the graduation of the first two classes from its Industrial Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship program, a first of its kind training program in California to prepare workers for the electric vehicle revolution.
- [Alabama's $4 Billion in Corporate Giveaways with Patricia Todd](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/alabamas-4-billion-in-corporate-giveaways-with-patricia-todd/) - Jobs to Move America's Southern Policy Director spoke to The Valley Labor Report about her new report on Alabama's corporate tax giveaways.
- [Report: Alabama’s incentives to businesses lack transparency, accountability](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/report-alabamas-incentives-to-businesses-lack-transparency-accountability/) - The report published Tuesday highlights Alabama’s secretive incentives for businesses, and urges lawmakers to improve transparency and hold businesses accountable for promises made about job creation and wages.
- [Group: state taxpayers left in dark on industrial incentives](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/group-state-taxpayers-left-in-dark-on-industrial-incentives/) - Alabama hands out millions of dollars in industrial incentives for the purpose of luring jobs to the state, but taxpayers are too often left in the dark about the deals and what the state ultimately gets in return, a new report from an advocacy group said.
- [Mayors: End ban on local hiring for federal projects. These jobs are economic lifelines.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mayors-end-ban-on-local-hiring-for-federal-projects-these-jobs-are-economic-lifelines/) - "We are calling on President Joe Biden to fully lift the federal ban on local hiring for federally funded projects. This will allow cities to use those federal dollars to create local jobs – and help us, as mayors, make our regions more prosperous and sustainable for all."
- [CCIA advocates make push with only weeks to go in session](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/ccia-advocates-make-push-with-only-weeks-to-go-in-session/) - Mo-Yain Tham, a senior researcher at Jobs to Move America, said the CCIA will create 160,000 jobs. “There’s massive potential to transform our economy," Tham said "The CCIA assures these jobs will be quality jobs contributing to a green economy.”
- [Advancements in electric buses making green transit more accessible for rural areas](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/advancements-in-electric-buses-making-green-transit-more-accessible-for-rural-areas/) - Christy Veeder, national program director, speaks to the societal and economic benefits of electric buses and the possibility of Biden's infrastructure plan.
- [Biden’s jobs plan could build racial equity with one simple fix](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/bidens-jobs-plan-could-build-racial-equity-with-one-simple-fix/) - How the infrastructure bill could easily be engineered to also build justice.
- [Local hiring gains steam as Biden pushes infrastructure, equity](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/local-hiring-gains-steam-as-biden-pushes-infrastructure-equity/) - The Department of Transportation is aiming to reinstate a program the Trump administration scrapped that would allow local hiring requirements to be added to federally funded infrastructure projects.
- [Advancements in electric buses making green transit more accessible](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/advancements-in-electric-buses-making-green-transit-more-accessible/) - "Jobs to Move America supports the switch to electric buses, not just because of reduced carbon emissions and independence from fossil fuels, but also the negative impacts of diesel buses on occupational and societal health."
- [Opinion: Why we need to Electrify America's school bus fleet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/opinion-why-we-need-to-electrify-americas-school-bus-fleet/) - In this op-ed, John Costa (ATU) and Sonal Jessel (WE ACT for Environmental Justice) draw on Jobs to Move America's research to show how electrifying our school buses can create good jobs, healthier communities, and advance equity.
- [Amazon says it pays Alabama workers well; other local employers pay more](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/amazon-says-it-pays-alabama-workers-well-other-local-employers-pay-more/) - A survey of about 100 workers at the NFI plant by Emily Erickson, a professor at Alabama A&M University, found that white workers earned about $3 an hour more than Black workers on average.
- [Report: Calhoun County manufacturing workers facing low wages, unsafe working conditions, racial and gender discrimination](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/report-calhoun-county-manufacturing-workers-facing-low-wages-unsafe-working-conditions-racial-and-gender-discrimination/) - A research team at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville released a grim report on the experiences workers are facing at manufacturing plants in Anniston and Calhoun County.
- [Biden's infrastructure plan endorses PRO Act, labor boosts](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/bidens-infrastructure-plan-endorses-pro-act-labor-boosts/) - President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan unveiled Wednesday calls for boosting workers and organized labor, including by overhauling federal labor law to make it easier for workers to form unions and negotiate the terms of their work.
- [Amazon's union vote: What the election at an Alabama warehouse could mean](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/amazons-union-vote-what-the-election-at-an-alabama-warehouse-could-mean/) - Iheme, the community organizer, said Amazon workers deserve to have enough energy to function outside of work. If warehouse employees aren't "exhausted when they get off work," or running off to a second job to make ends meet, they can be better parents. They might also get involved in the community and even take vacations to other parts of the state, she added, all of which would be good for Bessemer and the state's economy. "When you have that time to invest in your home," she said, "you have that time to invest in your community."
- [NYC’s purchase of school buses should supercharge transition to electric fleet: advocates](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/nycs-purchase-of-school-buses-should-supercharge-transition-to-electric-fleet-advocates/) - The city’s purchase of hundreds of yellow buses could jump-start what has been a slow effort to add electric vehicles to the diesel-guzzling school-bus fleet, advocates argue in a new report.
- [AAMU researchers reveal report on manufacturing industry in Alabama](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/aamu-researchers-reveal-report-on-manufacturing-industry-in-alabama/) - Research shows workers reported earning below living wage, unpredictable schedules and forced overtime, unsafe working conditions, racial and gender discrimination.
- [New study paints bleak picture of Alabama’s tradeoff of tax breaks for jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-study-paints-bleak-picture-of-alabamas-tradeoff-of-tax-breaks-for-jobs/) - Big companies benefit at the expense of their employees and surrounding communities, researchers at Alabama A&M say.
- [How Biden is trying to help working-class voters in red-state Alabama](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-biden-is-trying-to-help-working-class-voters-in-red-state-alabama/) - The president’s support for the rights of unionizing Amazon workers delighted political organizers in Alabama who are hoping to build long-term Democratic momentum in a reliably red state.
- [Editorial: One way Biden can help Black and Latino communities recover](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/editorial-one-way-biden-can-help-black-and-latino-communities-recover/) - "President Biden has repeatedly pitched a massive infrastructure spending plan as a way to create good jobs and address systemic racial inequities. But the president will never be able to achieve those goals as long as the government prohibits using federal dollars to encourage targeted local hiring," writes the LA Times Editorial Board.
- [CTA, peer transit agencies urge Biden administration to end local hiring ban](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cta-peer-transit-agencies-urge-biden-administration-to-end-local-hiring-ban/) - Transit officials, mayors and community activists from Chicago and elsewhere in the country called on the Biden administration to end long-standing federal regulations dictating that any construction project that uses federal funds can’t favor local companies and residents when it comes to issuing bids and hiring.
- [Mayor Walsh to Biden: Overturn ban on hiring local for federal projects](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mayor-walsh-to-biden-overturn-ban-on-hiring-local-for-federal-projects/) - Walsh believes allowing people to work in their own communities would help boost the local economy and increase opportunities for marginalized workers.
- [Walsh and labor advocate push for more local jobs for I-81 project](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/walsh-and-labor-advocate-push-for-more-local-jobs-for-i-81-project/) - Syracuse’s Mayor Ben Walsh and a local jobs advocate are lending their voices to a move to allow more local workers to take part in federally funded public works projects. Jobs to Move America is trying to lift a 30-year-old ban on any geographic hiring requirements in road, bridge or other projects that get federal money.
- [Mayor Eric Garcetti joins coalition ask Biden to overturn local hire ban](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mayor-eric-garcetti-joins-coalition-ask-biden-to-overturn-local-hire-ban/) - Officials argue that hiring locally will bolster regional economies. In their letter to the Biden administration, the coalition cited data from Local Labor Hiring Pilot, which shows that local hiring can be used on infrastructure projects without decreasing competition or increasing bid prices.
- [WATCH: Mayor Woodfin among 160 officials calling on Biden to overturn ban on ‘local hire’ policy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/watch-mayor-woodfin-among-160-officials-calling-on-biden-to-overturn-ban-on-local-hire-policy/) - In a letter to President Joe Biden, over 160 local officials, organizations, and academics are calling on the administration to overturn the ban on local hire, create local jobs and fix the economy.
- [Woodfin joins mayors calling for end to federal local hire ban](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/woodfin-joins-mayors-calling-for-end-to-federal-local-hire-ban/) - “We need every tool available to provide good paying jobs, and that’s definitely true for us here in Birmingham,” Woodfin said. “Removing the ban allows local workers to design and build in their communities, but it also provides an opportunity to cultivate a new generation of builders.”
- [Mayors join calls for Biden administration to end ban on local hires in federal infrastructure projects](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mayors-join-calls-for-biden-administration-to-end-ban-on-local-hires-in-federal-infrastructure-projects/) - Jobs to Move America, a broad coalition of mayors, cities, labor unions and community organizations from 24 states, issued a letter Tuesday calling on President Biden to end a decades-old federal regulation that prevents recipients of federal grant money for infrastructure projects to include provisions requiring or promoting the hiring of local community members.
- [Amazon workers’ fight to unionize draws help from around the world](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/amazon-workers-fight-to-unionize-draws-help-from-around-the-world/) - “This is our opportunity to shift the narrative of what it means to be a Southern worker,” she said of the Amazon election. “We need to get out of the mindset that it’s okay to have poor working conditions just because of our geography.”
- [Biden stays clear of endorsing union effort at Alabama Amazon warehouse](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/huffpost-biden-stays-clear-of-endorsing-union-effort-at-alabama-amazon-warehouse/) - “This is his opportunity to put a stake in the ground,” said Erica Iheme, a Birmingham native and southern director for Jobs to Move America, a group working to improve the quality of jobs in Alabama. “He can say, ‘This is where our administration stands.’”
- [Labor and community groups sign landmark Community Benefits Agreement with Proterra](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-and-community-groups-sign-landmark-community-benefits-agreement-with-proterra/) - EV bus manufacturer and technology provider commits to goal of hiring 50% of its workers from communities facing significant barriers to employment, such as veterans, women, and people of color.
- [Amazon gets billions while state and local government budgets collapse](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [Culver City, CA stands up to Big Oil, votes to phase out drilling in largest urban oil field in U.S.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [Green transit and jobs bills would boost upstate recovery](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [Column: What should ‘Buy America’ look like in a post-Covid world?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [This Labor Day, “Black lives matter” means justice for black workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [Where to turn if you want American-made Amtrak trains](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/where-to-turn-if-you-want-american-made-amtrak-trains/) - To help manufacturers along in the process, the Los Angeles-based Jobs to Move America coalition launched a new website on Monday, touting a workforce redevelopment resource bank to assist companies in making sure their bids create jobs for Americans.
- [U.S. workforce development webinar educates railcar manufacturers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/u-s-workforce-development-webinar-educates-railcar-manufacturers/) - Representatives of the world’s largest railcar manufacturing companies learned about best-practices in American workforce development, diversity, and outreach to disadvantaged workers via an informational webinar hosted this week by the Jobs to Move America coalition.
- [Coalition hosts webinar and launches website to provide resources for manufacturers, rail experts, and advocates](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/coalition-hosts-webinar-and-launches-website-to-provide-resources-for-manufacturers-rail-experts-and-advocates/) - On April 7, representatives of the world’s largest railcar manufacturing companies learned about best-practices in American workforce development, diversity, and outreach to disadvantaged workers via an informational webinar hosted by the Jobs to Move America coalition.
- [Jobs, transit and American communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/jobs-transit-and-american-communities/) - There are ways for the federal government to leverage transit purchases for good manufacturing jobs that pay a living wage and offer a career ladder to American workers.
- [Amtrak and CHSRA seek job-creation strategy from high-speed train manufacturers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/amtrak-and-chsra-seek-job-creation-strategy-from-high-speed-train-manufacturers/) - The Amtrak and California High-Speed Rail Authority request for proposals for a high-speed trainset manufacturer includes a unique provision: Bidders must submit details on how they would create U.S. manufacturing jobs and train workers.
- [A manufacturing pulse beat in the heartland](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-manufacturing-pulse-beat-in-the-heartland/) - Witnessing the demolition of the huge St. Paul Ford plant and learning about Minnesota’s dire racial inequalities — Minnesotans of color suffer almost triple the rates of unemployment and poverty as white Minnesotans — underscored the desperate need for the Metropolitan Council to act to revitalize the local manufacturing industry, create good jobs and make them available to disadvantaged people.
- [Five policy prescriptions for transportation job creation and  growth](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/five-policy-prescriptions-for-transportation-job-creation-and-growth/) - America’s public transportation infrastructure provides one excellent opportunity to build a more equitable, prosperous economy. Here are five policy prescriptions that can help create good jobs and growth in the transportation sector.
- [Amtrak wins praise for 'American jobs' request in contracts](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/amtrak-wins-praise-for-american-jobs-request-in-contracts/) - Amtrak is winning praise for including a requirement that potential contractors provide details about their plans to create American jobs to fulfill orders from the railway in its latest request for proposals.
- [Amtrak encourages American job creation with high-speed rail car manufacturers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/amtrak-encourages-american-job-creation-with-high-speed-rail-car-manufacturers/) - The Jobs to Move America coalition on Feb. 3 congratulated Amtrak for its recent Request for Proposals (RFP) for the purchase of 28 high-speed train sets including an unprecedented requirement for bidders to detail their plans to employ American workers.
- [President Obama: The solution to unprecedented inequality is good jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/president-obama-the-solution-to-unprecedented-inequality-is-good-jobs-and-opportunities-for-the-disadvantaged/) - Underinvestment in job creation, training, education and public services like transportation put middle-class success out of reach for many Americans, while at the other end of the spectrum, wealth has been concentrated in very few hands.
- [CTA nears deal on more than 800 new rail cars](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cta-nears-deal-on-more-than-800-new-rail-cars/)
- [Calif. high-speed rail authority, Amtrak seek join bids for trains to run on high-speed lines](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/calif-high-speed-rail-authority-amtrak-seek-join-bids-for-trains-to-run-on-high-speed-lines/) - California’s High-Speed Rail Authority and Amtrak on Friday released a joint request for proposals to build trains for California’s planned bullet train and Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor.
- [A modern-day war on poverty needs new tools. Why not make them in the US?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-modern-day-war-on-poverty-needs-new-tools-why-not-make-them-in-the-us/) - Currently, all rail cars and buses purchased with Federal Transit Administration cash must be assembled in the U.S., while only 60 percent of the components must be American-made.
- [Unions battle "Scrooge" Congress on transportation needs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/unions-battle-scrooge-congress-on-transportation-needs/) - Federal transportation funding is so skimpy that Congress acts like Ebenezer Scrooge when it comes to helping pay for the nation’s roads, subways, buses and other transportation, the AFL-CIO’s top transportation official says.
- [Rejecting Scrooge-like transportation budgets in 2014](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/rejecting-scrooge-like-transportation-budgets-in-2014/) - That’s why our nation’s holiday wish list for 2014 must include a comprehensive vision — and adequate resources — for strengthening the country’s transportation systems, which are the lifeblood of a growing 21st century economy.
- [Five arguments for American-made buses and how 'The Atlantic Cities' got it wrong](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/five-arguments-for-american-made-buses-and-how-the-atlantic-cities-got-it-wrong/)
- [Chicago Transit Authority tackles racial employment disparity](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/chicago-transit-authority-tackles-racial-employment-disparity/) - Much of $2 billion in new transit money will be built by local workers, thanks to a new agreement by a nonprofit and Chicago’s transit authority.
- [Which transit agencies have endeavored to buy local this year?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/which-transit-agencies-have-endeavored-to-buy-local-this-year/) - Hardcore capitalists will argue that transportation authorities should worry about their bottom dollar, especially when it comes to taxpayer money. But hiring and buying local is a sound way to create jobs and leverage public dollars for the best use.
- [Transportation labor joins the Jobs to Move America coalition](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/transportation-labor-joins-the-jobs-to-move-america-coalition/) - As a continuation and logical expansion of our transportation Buy America advocacy, we are formally announcing participation in the Jobs to Move America Coalition.
- [Chicago transportation plans aim to put disadvantaged back to work](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/chicago-transportation-plans-aim-to-put-disadvantaged-back-to-work/) - The manufacturing of more than 850 rapid transit cars could create 20,000 jobs for the growing population of unemployment in Chicago.
- [Chicago gets rolling toward good American jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/chicago-gets-rolling-toward-good-american-jobs/) - CTA’s addendum to its Invitation for Bids encourages companies to develop comprehensive American jobs plans and follow through to create them if awarded the contract – a move that could create as many as 20,000 good American manufacturing and related jobs.
- [CTA asks manufacturers of $2 billion rapid transit cars to disclose American jobs plans for first time](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cta-asks-manufacturers-of-2-billion-rapid-transit-cars-to-disclose-american-jobs-plans-for-first-time/) - On Oct. 17, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced it will ask companies vying for a $2 billion contract to manufacture 854 new rapid transit cars to provide specific information on how many jobs they plan to create in America and how they will generate opportunities for American workers, for the first time.
- [CTA will quietly nudge rail car bidders to hire Americans](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cta-will-quietly-nudge-rail-car-bidders-to-hire-americans/) - The request for a disclosure on an American jobs plan is not a requirement by the CTA, but it is the first time the transit agency has asked bidders to voluntarily submit such information.
- [CTA encourages bidders for rail car deal to detail US job creation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cta-encourages-bidders-for-rail-car-deal-to-detail-us-job-creation/) - The CTA is asking manufacturers bidding on a potential $2 billion rail car contract to disclose any plans about new jobs they might create in the U.S.
- [Are American transit manufacturers afraid of American jobs?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/are-american-transit-manufacturers-afraid-of-american-jobs/) - Manufacturing companies may be afraid of American jobs, but the Jobs to Move America coalition is not. In the months ahead, our campaign will continue to ask public transit agencies to invest billions of American tax dollars into good jobs, opportunities and factories, right here in America.
- [Maryland must make sure transit investments create jobs here](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/maryland-must-make-sure-transit-investments-create-jobs-here/) - With unemployment rates at 7 percent statewide and much higher in Baltimore, it's clear we need to be innovative and think about how we can grow the manufacturing industry by creating jobs across all communities, particularly those that are low-income.
- [Thinking outside our economic box: How transit investments can get U.S. manufacturing moving again](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/thinking-outside-our-economic-box-how-transit-investments-can-get-u-s-manufacturing-moving-again/) - This Labor Day, let’s renew our commitment to getting out of the box and building a new economy where everyone wins.
- [The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: A new model for American liberalism?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-los-angeles-alliance-for-a-new-economy-a-new-model-for-american-liberalism/) - No matter the intended beneficiary, LAANE has prevailed with the same underlying argument: that the investment of public funds should yield public benefits.
- [How the CTA can create city jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-the-cta-can-create-city-jobs/) - Chicago has a huge opportunity, right now, to tackle the problem of unemployment, especially among African Americans.
- [Chicago's $2 billion decision: Will it buy U.S.?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/chicagos-2-billion-decision-will-it-buy-u-s/) - Chicago's fleet of elevated trains will be joined by 846 new railcars. But who will make them?
- [Go local, labor groups tell Chicago Transit Authority](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/go-local-labor-groups-tell-chicago-transit-authority/) - Chicago labor groups are pissed. And they have a right to be. The Montreal-based company Bombardier Transportation was awarded a $1.14 billion contract to build more than 700 train cars for the Chicago Transit Authority, and the local workforce has been left out.
- [Labor groups: Future CTA rail car makers must disclose local job details](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-groups-future-cta-rail-car-makers-must-disclose-local-job-details/) - The Chicago Federation of Labor and Chicago Jobs with Justice, among seven other groups, want new manufacturers of Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) rail cars to lay out specific details about how many local jobs will be created before any contract is awarded.
- [Groups call on CTA to require new rail car makers to detail future local jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/groups-call-on-cta-to-require-new-rail-car-makers-to-detail-future-local-jobs/) - Chicago labor and community groups on Monday called on the Chicago Transit Authority to require bidders on future rail car manufacturing contracts to submit detailed plans for creating local jobs.
- [In bid for new buses, LA demands American-made](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/in-bid-for-new-buses-la-demands-american-made/) - This strategy for directly linking job creation to transportation procurement comes at an opportune time given all the recent attention on infrastructure investment and bringing manufacturing jobs to U.S. soil after decades of outsourcing.
- [LA bus buy creates new US jobs. Let's make sure other cities follow suit.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/la-bus-buy-creates-new-us-jobs-lets-make-sure-other-cities-follow-suit/) - Turning federally funded transit projects into a vehicle for job creation that also boosts America’s manufacturing sector is an overdue step.
- [LA's lost opportunity for job creation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/las-lost-opportunity-for-job-creation/) - Public officials charged with expending precious tax dollars on equipment need to select companies that manufacture their products in the United States.
- [Jobs firm, BYD extend benefits agreement](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- [Elon Musk thinks his treatment of workers is a "trade secret"](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/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.
- ['N.Y. Green Transit/Green Jobs' legislation gaining steam](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/n-y-green-transit-green-jobs-legislation-gaining-steam/) - The plan has widespread support among environmental advocates, transit advocates, and labor unions throughout the state.
- [It’s electric! Dinowitz introduces green bills for NY buses and public transit jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/its-electric-dinowitz-introduces-green-bills-for-ny-buses-and-public-transit-jobs/) - The legislation also cites that other major cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago have put forward similar commitments in the development of new employment “that created hundreds of high-quality, unionized jobs.”
- [Legislators and advocates announce push for ‘Green Transit/Green Jobs’ legislation in New York State](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/legislators-and-advocates-announce-push-for-green-transit-green-jobs-legislation-in-new-york-state/) - A pair of bills from Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and State Senator Timothy Kennedy would mandate public bus systems convert to zero-emission buses and would incentivize electric buses to be manufactured in New York’s high-need communities.
- [Industry stakeholders weigh in on regulation, free trade, transit funding and other potential election-impacted issues](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/industry-stakeholders-weigh-in-on-regulation-free-trade-transit-funding-and-other-potential-election-impacted-issues/) - "We need mass transit to make our cities better, to make life better for people who can’t afford cars or who don’t want to continue to drive in traffic. Public transit has triple bottom-line benefits," said Madeline Janis.
- [Public contracts shrouded in secrecy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/public-contracts-shrouded-in-secrecy/) - The trade secret exemption “absolutely eviscerates the public records law,” said Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America. “Companies claim that everything is a trade secret, everything is proprietary. If communities and workers can’t get the information, how do the public and the public agencies know if the contractors are keeping their promises?”
- [Let's electrify public buses without throwing workers under the bus](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/lets-electrify-public-buses-without-throwing-workers-under-the-bus/) - "Here’s the thing: electric buses are coming. That much is certain. But how electric buses will be deployed en masse is another story, one that’s still unfolding. Will cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles that have committed to transitioning their entire bus fleets to zero-emissions technology simply lay off all of their current
- [Sure, watch ‘American Factory.’ But don’t think that all Chinese factories are like the one in the film](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/sure-watch-american-factory-but-dont-think-that-all-chinese-factories-are-like-the-one-in-the-film/) - "When it comes to the treatment of workers and the protection of the environment, any company anywhere can choose to be a good actor or a bad one — and left unchecked, they often choose the latter. In my experience, nine times out of 10, the key factor determining their choice is whether public officials,
- [Labor Day hope: transparency in public works contracts](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-day-hope-transparency-in-public-works-contracts/) - A proposed California law would compel companies seeking public contracts to deliver the high-quality wages that they promise. “Detailed information about our public contracts in California are difficult to track down,” said Abhilasha Bhola, California senior policy coordinator at JMA, in an email. “That’s why bills like SB 749 are so important—the public needs to
- [The route to infrastructure that benefits communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-route-to-infrastructure-that-benefits-communities/) - States and localities will need the full range of tools to recover economically. That calls for federal policies that tap infrastructure-building's power to boost local jobs and small-business growth, writes national program director Christy Veeder.
- [Why there’s little sunshine on many economic development deals in Florida — and beyond](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/why-theres-little-sunshine-on-many-economic-development-deals-in-florida-and-beyond/) - In Los Angeles, transparency proved to be important for an economic development deal and contract between the city’s transit authority and a bus manufacturer. But it took a court battle to reveal the details to the public.
- [Harlem’s Rep. Adriano Espaillat secures multiple wins in critical House transportation bill](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/harlems-rep-adriano-espaillat-secures-multiple-wins-in-critical-house-transportation-bill/) - A five-year bill to improve and increase federal investment in transportation infrastructure programs features our signature good jobs and equity policy, the U.S. Employment Plan.
- [Black Workers Matter: How defunding police could create thousands of good jobs for Black communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/black-workers-matter-how-defunding-police-could-create-thousands-of-good-jobs-for-black-communities/) - Our research shows how divesting from policing could build clean transit systems in Black neighborhoods and create thousands of good jobs in the process.
- [Rep. Barragán introduces Climate Smart Ports Act to improve air quality and create good jobs in port communities across America](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/rep-barragan-introduces-climate-smart-ports-act-to-improve-air-quality-and-create-good-jobs-in-port-communities-across-america/) - "Jobs to Move America commends Representative Barragan on this initiative and her commitment to ensuring good jobs and clean air go hand in hand,” said Abhilasha Bhola.
- [Can workers organize in the deep South during the pandemic?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/can-workers-organize-in-the-deep-south-during-the-pandemic/) - A community coalition employs an alternative approach at an Alabama bus plant.
- [Turning the tide on corporate giveaways in the South](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/turning-the-tide-on-corporate-giveaways-in-the-south/) - Jobs to Move America is building a research-action program, headquartered in Birmingham, to win sunshine and accountability policies in the South.
- [CTA looks to create good jobs and racial fairness even as it grows](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cta-looks-to-create-good-jobs-and-racial-fairness-even-as-it-grows/) - The CTA’s move to create training and career pathways for workers from marginalized communities is proof we don’t have to choose between tackling infrastructure issues or racial wealth gap, writes Jacky Grimshaw, Jobs to Move America board member, in the Chicago Sun Times.
- [What the GM strikers teach us about government subsidies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/what-the-gm-strikers-teach-us-about-government-subsidies/) - "What GM is teaching us is that government subsidies and tax credits should not be a handshake deal. Ultimately, taxpayers are footing the bill. Our government – at federal, state and local levels – must ensure that public money is spent wisely, and not at the expense of American workers and communities," write Alaa Milbes, communications
- [American Factory tells an all too familiar story](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/american-factory-tells-an-all-too-familiar-story/) - "We’ve seen it over and over: when workers and community members join together to demand dignity and respect, they can achieve the goal of shared prosperity that should be the basis for all of these agreements in the first place. A win for workers is a win for communities and corporations who invest in them.
- [How New York could make better jobs in Alabama](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-new-york-could-make-better-jobs-in-alabama/) - A new campaign wants city transit authorities to enforce stronger agreements for workers as they contract with a manufacturer in the South.
- [Unionizing L.A. bus workers and their CEO come together over fighting climate change](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/unionizing-l-a-bus-workers-and-their-ceo-come-together-over-fighting-climate-change/) - “Our coalition coalesces around this idea that a company that relies on public contracts to build up their business should be accountable for creating community benefits in that process,” says Hector Huezo, in the Los Angeles Times.
- ['American Factory': Taxpayers shouldn't subsidize worker mistreatment](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/american-factory-taxpayers-shouldnt-subsidize-worker-mistreatment/) - We should not be doling out taxpayer gifts to companies that don't meet basic standards like fair wages and safe working conditions.
- [LA Sanitation commits to 100 percent electric fleet by 2035](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/la-sanitation-commits-to-100-percent-electric-fleet-by-2035/) - LA Sanitation becomes the first municipality to commit to all-electric fleets.
- [Electric vehicle industry driving up salaries, report finds](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/electric-vehicle-industry-driving-up-salaries-report-finds/) - Demand for skilled workers in Southern California’s electric vehicle industry is growing, driving up salaries and filling local training programs, according to a new report.
- [United State of Women summit to feature Women Can Build: Re-envisioning Rosie Exhibit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/united-state-of-women-summit-to-feature-women-can-build-re-envisioning-rosie-exhibit/) - Jobs to Move America (JMA), and the AFL-CIO are partnering to sponsor a one-day display of photographs from the Women Can Build: Re-envisioning Rosie exhibit during the White House United State of Women Summit.
- ['Women Can Build: Re-Envisioning Rosie' art exhibit highlights working women at White House summit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/women-can-build-re-envisioning-rosie-art-exhibit-highlights-working-women-at-white-house-summit/) - On June 14, 5,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for the first-ever White House Summit focused on gender equity.
- [Investing in public transit lifts up working people](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/investing-in-public-transit-lifts-up-working-people/) - Access to reliable, affordable public transportation is a gateway to a better quality of life that comes from good jobs, quality public education and other public services. For the millions of Americans who can’t afford a vehicle, a simple bus or subway route can mean the difference between chronic poverty and hope for financial stability.
- [The MTA can rescue suffering workers: Use the capital plan to create good jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-mta-can-rescue-suffering-workers-use-the-capital-plan-to-create-good-jobs/) - The MTA capital plan offers us the means to get back on track. We can create opportunities for more manufacturing right here in New York, particularly in the New York City area, where the problems of income inequality are most severe. We can create thousands of good union jobs that will provide workers with the
- [Cuomo issues RFP to manufacture new subway cars in the U.S.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cuomo-issues-rfp-to-manufacture-new-subway-cars-in-the-u-s/)
- [MTA's subway car RFP includes provision to encourage U.S. job creation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mtas-subway-car-rfp-includes-provision-to-encourage-u-s-job-creation/) - The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) request for proposals (RFP) for the purchase of 1,025 new subway cars features a "U.S. employment plan," which includes incentives aimed at encouraging manufacturers to create jobs, advocacy group Jobs to Move America (JMA) announced yesterday.
- [Gov. Cuomo announces Request for Proposals for new, reimagined subway cars released](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/gov-cuomo-announces-request-for-proposals-for-new-reimagined-subway-cars-released/) - Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America said, “By adopting the U.S. Employment Plan, the MTA has included a jobs disclosure and evaluation tool for the purchase of these trains that will improve New York's transit system, create good jobs and revive manufacturing in our communities that need it the most. We commend
- [How billions of dollars in transportation spending can transform our communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-billions-of-dollars-in-transportation-spending-can-transform-our-communities/) - Although the national unemployment rate has declined since the Great Recession, for low-income families and communities of color, the unemployment rate remains in the double-digits and good, family-supporting jobs can’t come fast enough.
- [Transit investments can transform communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/transit-investments-can-transform-communities/) - Before investing in their communities, public transit agencies must ensure that all customers will benefit, transportation consultant Beverly A. Scott said at a Sept. 12 session she moderated, “Transforming Lives and Communities: The Power of Transportation Investment.”
- [How an innovative plan helped a veteran find work building railcars](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-an-innovative-plan-helped-a-veteran-find-work-building-railcars/) - Many veterans struggle to find good-paying jobs after their service. Kristian was hoping to find a manufacturing job, but the industry that fueled the middle class for so many decades is a shell of what it once was, leaving people like him with few options.
- [LA Metro bus project to lift up disadvantaged workers](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/la-metro-bus-project-to-lift-up-disadvantaged-workers/) - In total, the projects could bring an estimated 4,500 jobs to the Los Angeles County area and other yet-to-be-determined cities that local transit jobs coalition Jobs to Move America says will play a vital role in the manufacturing and supply chains delivering them to Southern California.
- ["Natural gas is so 90s": Coalition pushes for Metro fully electric bus fleet by 2030](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/natural-gas-is-so-90s-coalition-pushes-for-metro-fully-electric-bus-fleet-by-2030/)
- [Environmentalists challenge Metro leaders to buy all electric buses to curb climate change](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/environmentalists-challenge-metro-leaders-to-buy-all-electric-buses-to-curb-climate-change/) - Unbowed by proposals coming out of the White House to weaken climate-change initiatives, environmental and labor groups Thursday asked transportation leaders to double down on green energy policies by switching to zero-emission electric buses.
- [Coalition aims to transform LA Metro to electric bus fleet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/coalition-aims-to-transform-la-metro-to-electric-bus-fleet/) - A new coalition of environmental groups, labor advocates and bus riders gathered at Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) headquarters recently to launch a campaign calling on Metro to commit now to an all-electric fleet of buses by 2030.
- [Deanne Fitzmaurice: Rosies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/deanne-fitzmaurice-rosies/) - The project reveals the overlooked contributions, and decline in hiring since WWII, of the skilled and hard-working women who build our 21st Century transportation including trams, rail, buses, bridges, roads and streets.
- [Transport center stage in “Women Can Build” photo exhibit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/transport-center-stage-in-women-can-build-photo-exhibit/) - In honor of Women’s History Month, Jobs to Move America and the New York City Department of Transportation announced the launch of the Women Can Build photography exhibit revealing the contributions of women building 21st Century transportation, including trams, rail, buses, bridges and roads.
- [Exhibit highlights women who build](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/exhibit-highlights-women-who-build/) - On International Women's Day, a new exhibit celebrates women who help to move New Yorkers. NY1's Jose Martinez filed the following report.
- [NYC features women in manufacturing in new photo exhibit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/nyc-features-women-in-manufacturing-in-new-photo-exhibit/) - NYC's Department of Transportation is unveiling a new photo exhibit on Wednesday.
- [¡Nueva York reconoce a todas las mujeres en su día!](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/nueva-york-reconoce-a-todas-las-mujeres-en-su-dia/) - Verónica Albornoz nos muestra cómo la Gran Manzana reconoce el esfuerzo, la lucha y el trabajo de todas las mujeres en el Día Internacional de la Mujer.
- [Women at work: 'we can build anything' – in pictures](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/women-at-work-we-can-build-anything-in-pictures/) - Women employed in industry and manufacturing are grossly outnumbered by men in the US, but a new exhibition sponsored by Jobs to Move America and the NYC department of transportation pays tribute to the women who build America’s infrastructure. Women Can Build features portraits by Deanne Fitzmaurice, and the free exhibition can be seen until
- [Prowess of women builders on display in lower Manhattan photo exhibit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/prowess-of-women-builders-on-display-in-lower-manhattan-photo-exhibit/) - 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 are being celebrated in a new Lower Manhattan photography exhibit.
- [A new public art exhibition shares the stories of women in the building trades](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-new-public-art-exhibition-shares-the-stories-of-women-in-the-building-trades/) - 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.
- [CTA breaks ground on new rail car factory](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cta-breaks-ground-on-new-rail-car-factory/) - 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 programs and community hiring
- [Photos of hardworking women: new exhibit honors those in transportation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/photos-of-hardworking-women-new-exhibit-honors-those-in-transportation/) - 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.
- [The plan behind a Chicago project to lift up working people](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-plan-behind-a-chicago-project-to-lift-up-working-people/) - 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 Chicago Transit Authority for four years to ensure that the U.S. Employment Plan was included as
- [Women can build: the power of transportation investment](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/women-can-build-the-power-of-transportation-investment/) - 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 Transportation Seminar annual conference in New York.
- [Rick Smith Show: How Trump's DOT policy will harm communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/rick-smith-show-how-trumps-dot-policy-will-harm-communities/) - Jobs to Move America joins Rick to explain the recent move by President Trump’s Department of Transportation to undo the Obama administrations local hiring rule and discuss what that will mean for communities.
- [Coalition claims Nippon wrongly fired worker](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/coalition-claims-nippon-wrongly-fired-worker/) - 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 Century Foundation on why manufacturing jobs are worth saving](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-century-foundation-on-why-manufacturing-jobs-are-worth-saving/) - According to Jobs to Move America, just 27 percent of manufacturing jobs belong to women — most of which are administrative positions. Only seven percent of middle-skilled manufacturing positions are held by women.
- [Applying lessons from the anti-apartheid era to today](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/applying-lessons-from-the-anti-apartheid-era-to-today/) - With Donald Trump's on-going threats to cut off federal funding to sanctuary cities, some activists are looking to the past for lessons learned under President Reagan. Anti-Apartheid activists in the 1980s faced similar threats of cuts to federal funds under Reagan. A forthcoming report by social justice groups details how cities and states successfully fought
- [Reagan vs. cities: the battle over South African apartheid and lessons for the Trump era](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/reagan-vs-cities-the-battle-over-south-african-apartheid-and-lessons-for-the-trump-era/) - The report “Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th Century Battle Over South African Apartheid & Lessons For The Trump Era” provides historical examples of how cities and states can wield power in the face of threats of retaliation for local policies that defy a president’s political agenda.
- [BYD signs jobs agreement at Lancaster plant](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/byd-signs-jobs-agreement-at-lancaster-plant/) - BYD Motors Inc. announced Monday signing a community benefits agreement with Jobs to Move America to create job opportunities for underserved people at the company’s Lancaster manufacturing plant.
- [BYD wants to make more buses in the U.S.](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/byd-wants-to-make-more-buses-in-the-u-s/) - Stella Li, president of BYD Motors, talks about the company’s plans to increase its production capacity for electric buses and cars in the U.S.
- [The great Los Angeles revolt against cars](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-great-los-angeles-revolt-against-cars/) - Our work is "kind of a big-picture, modern Marshall Plan for Los Angeles,” says Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America.
- [Metro bus fleet to go entirely electric](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/metro-bus-fleet-to-go-entirely-electric/) - The Metro Board of Directors Thursday approved a plan to transition its entire bus fleet to be 100 percent electric by 2030, a bold move that requires the purchase of more than 2,200 vehicles and continuous advancements in technology.
- [BYD's hiring pledge could charge up MTA bus deal](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/byds-hiring-pledge-could-charge-up-mta-bus-deal-2/) - Downtown-based BYD Motors has committed to hiring almost half of its local manufacturing team from underserved populations, a move that experts said will add points to the company’s electric bus sales proposal going before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority this week.
- [Corporate America’s latest trick: The reverse Public Records Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/corporate-americas-latest-trick-the-reverse-public-records-act-2/) - When it comes to evading accountability, corporate America is endlessly inventive. Recently, private government contractors have been fighting disclosure of crucial information in virtually every context nationwide, including with a sneaky maneuver called a “reverse Public Records Act.” A case in Los Angeles is the latest example.
- [BYD commits to hiring from communities facing significant barriers to employment](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/byd-commits-to-hiring-from-communities-facing-significant-barriers-to-employment/) - Jobs to Move America and electric bus manufacturer BYD announced the signing of a landmark community benefits agreement (CBA) that will create pathways into the manufacturing industry for underrepresented and underserved populations in Los Angeles County.
- [Labor and community groups sign agreement with BYD in Los Angeles](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/labor-and-community-groups-sign-agreement-with-byd-in-los-angeles/) - Jobs to Move America and BYD Motors have announced the signing of a landmark community benefits agreement (CBA) that will create pathways into the manufacturing industry for underrepresented and underserved populations in Los Angeles County.
- [Metro electric buses could deliver for workers as well as environment](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/metro-electric-buses-could-deliver-for-workers-as-well-as-environment/) - "Metro committing to adopt a 100 percent zero-emission fleet is a victory in its own right, but if the agency crafts a holistic policy focused on the environment, workers and our communities, it can achieve maximum benefits for the region. Metro has the tools, the timing is right, and the need is greater than ever,"
- [Electric buses = more good, union jobs for low-income Californians](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/electric-buses-more-good-union-jobs-for-low-income-californians-2/) - BYD’s CBA and union partnership show what can happen when we work together to create clean economy jobs that are safe, pay well and are accessible for everyone. Our state should follow the lead of SMART, JMA and BYD. California should ensure that we do more than just build a clean economy for a few,
- [LA Metro’s opportunity to lead](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/la-metros-opportunity-to-lead/) - Last week, Jobs to Move America and BYD, an electric truck and bus manufacturer in Lancaster, California, announced commitments by BYD to create job pathways for underrepresented and underserved populations in Los Angeles County.
- [BYD funds training programs, employs disadvantaged workers at California plant](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/byd-funds-training-programs-employs-disadvantaged-workers-at-california-plant/) - The bus builder has signed a community benefits agreement (CBA) with a coalition of community groups called Jobs to Move America (JMA). A CBA, which is more typically associated with real estate projects, is a legally enforceable agreement designed to support the creation of local jobs.
- [LA Metro commits to 100 percent electric buses by 2030](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/la-metro-commits-to-100-percent-electric-buses-by-2030/) - Calling it better for the environment and public health, the largest transportation agency in the county voted unanimously Thursday to transition to zero-emission electric buses on all its routes by 2030.
- [Corporate America’s latest trick: The reverse Public Records Act](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/corporate-americas-latest-trick-the-reverse-public-records-act/) - When it comes to evading accountability, corporate America is endlessly inventive. Recently, private government contractors have been fighting disclosure of crucial information in virtually every context nationwide, including with a sneaky maneuver called a “reverse Public Records Act.” A case in Los Angeles is the latest example.
- [Editorial: Jobs building local transit projects should go to the communities paying for them](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/editorial-jobs-building-local-transit-projects-should-go-to-the-communities-paying-for-them/) - Given the encouraging results from Metro, cities and states — which are increasingly picking up the lion’s share of the cost of transportation projects — should be allowed to continue experimenting with local hire. Using infrastructure dollars to build badly needed transportation improvements and a new middle class would truly help make America great again.
- [Metro agrees to buy 95 electric buses, in the first step toward an emissions-free fleet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/metro-agrees-to-buy-95-electric-buses-in-the-first-step-toward-an-emissions-free-fleet/) - In the first step toward a new goal of eliminating tailpipe emissions by 2030, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed Thursday to spend more than $138 million to buy 95 electric buses that will run on two Los Angeles County busways.
- [Metro approves plan to move toward 100-percent electric bus fleet](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/metro-approves-plan-to-move-toward-100-percent-electric-bus-fleet/) - "L.A. Metro's decision to switch from fossil fuel, gas-powered buses to 100 percent clean, electric buses will reduce greenhouse gas emissions while cutting the air pollution that is poisoning our communities, and improve the quality of life for the 9.6 million people who live, work, play and breathe in this region," the coalition said in
- [L.A. Metro unanimously votes to order 60 electric BYD buses](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/l-a-metro-unanimously-votes-to-order-60-electric-byd-buses/) - “LA Metro is certainly right to be electrifying, and we’re particularly glad they are working with a company like BYD with a clear commitment to working with our community and labor partners to create a pipeline for underserved and underrepresented populations into good jobs,” says Erika Thi Patterson, national policy director at Jobs to Move
- [L.A. Metro Board awards one of the largest single electric bus contracts in US history to BYD](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/l-a-metro-board-awards-one-of-the-largest-single-electric-bus-contracts-in-us-history-to-byd/) - This award comes weeks after BYD signed a Community Benefits Agreement with Jobs to Move America and as BYD moves forward on union negotiations with the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers Local 105. The factory in Lancaster currently employs over 700 Californians making buses and trucks.
- [Linking public works to local hiring faces a Trump challenge](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/linking-public-works-to-local-hiring-faces-a-trump-challenge/) - “Why not let cities and states innovate to create the good American jobs that the administration has been clamoring for?” said Madeline Janis, the executive director of Jobs to Move America.
- [Cities nationwide, take notice: Los Angeles just committed to all electric transit buses & you can too](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/cities-nationwide-take-notice-los-angeles-just-committed-to-all-electric-transit-buses-you-can-too/) - Last week, L.A. Metro, the second largest transit agency in the United States, voted to ensure that all of its more than 2,200 buses will run on battery electric power by the year 2030. This is a huge ground-breaking decision. The city of Los Angeles, its mayor, and its transit board have thrown down the
- [Electric buses = more good, union jobs for low-income Californians](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/electric-buses-more-good-union-jobs-for-low-income-californians/) - California is on the cutting edge of the clean economy thanks to our leadership in addressing climate change.
- [Trump to undo Obama-era federal transportation jobs program that aided minority communities](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/trump-to-undo-obama-era-federal-transportation-jobs-program-that-aided-minority-communities/)
- [Trump’s Dept. of Transportation nixes “Hire Local” jobs idea](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/trumps-dept-of-transportation-nixes-hire-local-jobs-idea/) - Jobs to Move America, a national coalition that supports using infrastructure spending to benefit low-income people, released a statement denouncing the withdrawal.
- [USDOT withdraws local-hiring plan for federally funded projects](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/usdot-withdraws-local-hiring-plan-for-federally-funded-projects/) - The U.S. Department of Transportation has withdrawn an Obama-era proposal that allowed cities receiving federal grant funds to use geographic hiring preferences for federally-funded projects.
- [L.A. approves full LADOT transit electrification by 2030](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/l-a-approves-full-ladot-transit-electrification-by-2030/) - Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a motion that commits LADOT to electrify its transit bus fleet by 2030.
- [Is manufacturing's future all used up?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/is-manufacturings-future-all-used-up/) - Though the efforts to revive our much shrunken industrial sector may seem quixotic, manufacturing still matters to the nation’s economy—and its psyche.
- [MTA New York City Transit acquiring hundreds of next-Generation subway cars to improve service](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mta-new-york-city-transit-acquiring-hundreds-of-next-generation-subway-cars-to-improve-service/) - 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 Director Linda Nguyen said: “JMA congratulates Governor Cuomo and MTA staff on leading the country with
- [Westchester factory to build MTA subway cars](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/westchester-factory-to-build-mta-subway-cars/) - A whole host of new jobs are heading to the Hudson Valley, as the MTA announced a $1.4 billion contract that will be awarded to Kawasaki to build state-of-the-art subway cars in Westchester.
- [L.A. Metro OKs new policy aimed at creating local jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/l-a-metro-oks-new-policy-aimed-at-creating-local-jobs/) - The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's board yesterday approved a new policy to incentivize companies bidding on contracts to create and retain U.S. jobs. The policy is estimated to support up to 22,000 jobs as L.A. Metro replaces all of its trains and buses, said JMA National Policy Director Erika Thi Patterson in an
- [New York set to acquire the next generation of subway cars](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/new-york-set-to-acquire-the-next-generation-of-subway-cars/) - “We’re thrilled,” said John Samuelsen, international president of Transport Workers Union, which fought for the jobs component of the agreement. “The billions of dollars that transit agencies spend every year on new rail cars and equipment should to every extent possible be used to create jobs for American families, not jobs overseas.”
- [A pathway to 22,000 jobs: Los Angeles County Metro Board unanimously approves first-of-its-kind good jobs policy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-pathway-to-22000-jobs-los-angeles-county-metro-board-unanimously-approves-first-of-its-kind-good-jobs-policy/) - 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.
- [In government procurement, buying local is popular. But is it beneficial?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/in-government-procurement-buying-local-is-popular-but-is-it-beneficial/) - “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.
- [Connecting public transit to great manufacturing jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/connecting-public-transit-to-great-manufacturing-jobs/) - "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 jobs," writes Steven Greenhouse in American Prospect.
- [Public interest group wins legal fees in transparency lawsuit](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/public-interest-group-wins-legal-fees-in-transparency-lawsuit/) - 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.
- [Frontline workers call for investment in employees](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/frontline-workers-call-for-investment-in-employees/) - 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 retirement.
- [Manufacturers have a recruitment problem, so why aren't they hiring more women?](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/manufacturers-have-a-recruitment-problem-so-why-arent-they-hiring-more-women/) - If manufacturers want to recruit the most talented workers, they need to start by making conditions on the factory floor better for women.
- [Fear on the factory floor is bad for business](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/fear-on-the-factory-floor-is-bad-for-business/) - In the past 20 years, U.S. manufacturing jobs have become more insecure and precarious.
- [Bringing back good manufacturing jobs to America, one electric bus at a time](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/bringing-back-good-manufacturing-jobs-to-america-one-electric-bus-at-a-time/) - 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 rail cars that help people get to work. At Jobs Move America, we think these
- [The time is now for action on job quality](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/the-time-is-now-for-action-on-job-quality/) - Americans across the country, bridging partisan affiliation and from rural and urban communities alike, want to use public policy to boost wages in particular for the working poor and near poor.
- [CARB commits to zero emission buses and job creation in new rule](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/carb-commits-to-zero-emission-buses-and-job-creation-in-new-rule/) - The California Air Resources Board voted today to mandate that all transit agencies in California operate 100 percent zero emission transit buses by 2040, and to use this transition to invest in workforce development training programs in manufacturing, infrastructure installation, and maintenance.
- [California switching to zero-emission transit buses by 2040](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/california-switching-to-zero-emission-transit-buses-by-2040/) - On Friday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to set a statewide goal for public transit agencies to transition to 100% zero-emission bus fleets by 2040, representing a first-of-its-kind regulation in the U.S.
- [California mandates fleets to operate zero-emission buses by 2040](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/california-mandates-fleets-to-operate-zero-emission-buses-by-2040/) - “The passing of this rule is a huge win for many in our communities who, despite working hard for years, have been unable to benefit from the Silicon Valley tech boom and infrastructure investment,” said Abhilasha Bhola, Jobs to Move America senior policy coordinator. “Not only will this rule reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, it has, the
- [Transportation advocates commend states' announcement to develop regional program to modernize transportation and reduce vehicle pollution](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/transportation-advocates-commend-states-announcement-to-develop-regional-program-to-modernize-transportation-and-reduce-vehicle-pollution/) - Leading environmental, scientific, transportation, health, and business organizations working to advance modern, clean, equitable and low-carbon transportation celebrated an announcement today from nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic governors and the Mayor of Washington, D.C. to move forward with a regional clean transportation initiative.
- [Congress takes first step to give second chances, manufacturers should follow](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/congress-takes-first-step-to-give-second-chances-manufacturers-should-follow/) - "While many consider the First Step Act to be just that -- a first step -- the bill may also contain important lessons for manufacturers looking to solve the sector's ongoing recruitment crisis," writes Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America, in Forbes.
- [Report on heavy-duty EVs highlights opportunity for social equity](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/report-on-heavy-duty-evs-highlights-opportunity-for-social-equity/) - California’s heavy-duty electric vehicle revolution doesn’t just benefit the environment, it will help social equity efforts as well, according to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists and The Greenlining Institute.
- [BYD receives recognition for its commitment to advancing women in the workplace](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/byd-receives-recognition-for-its-commitment-to-advancing-women-in-the-workplace/) - BYD is the only pure-electric vehicle manufacturer in North America included on Bloomberg’s 2019 Gender-Equality Index List.
- [Foxconn fiasco proves manufacturing revival won't happen without accountability](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/foxconn-fiasco-proves-manufacturing-revival-wont-happen-without-accountability/) - Foxconn reneging on its initial agreement dealt a major blow to Wisconsin’s communities and economy. But it is, ultimately, unsurprising news. Our cities and states spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars every year on subsidies to private sector companies with few standards in place, as is the case with Foxconn.
- [Over 70 workers hired to build CTA's next-gen 7000-Series cars on SE side](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/over-70-workers-hired-to-build-ctas-next-gen-7000-series-cars-on-se-side/) - The city says the factory, located on 45 acres of land, will eventually create about 170 manufacturing, warehouse and professional jobs. It’s been 55 years since rail cars were built within the city limits.
- [Why transit equity matters](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/why-transit-equity-matters/) - Today marks the birthday of Rosa Parks, who made history in 1955 when she refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
- [Meet the black climate and social justice leaders you have never heard of](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/meet-the-black-climate-and-social-justice-leaders-you-have-never-heard-of/) - A new generation of black activists are working on issues from housing to transportation to food security. Dr. Beverly Scott, JMA board member, is featured.
- ['Monumental': Chicago commits to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/monumental-chicago-commits-to-100-percent-renewable-energy-by-2040/) - "The Chicago Collective who wrote this resolution—comprised of frontline environmental justice communities, green groups, and unions—proves that not only can Chicago build a climate-safe future for next generations, but that a truly just transition also creates good, family-sustaining jobs to lift up communities," said Kassie Beyer, campaign director of Jobs to Move America in Illinois.
- [Chicago commits to 100 percent clean energy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/chicago-commits-to-100-percent-clean-energy/) - Chicago just became the largest city in the United States to commit to 100 percent clean energy. Legislation passed unanimously today by the city council will enable the metropolis of 2.7 million to power all of its buildings on clean and renewable energy by 2035.
- [A Green New Deal worth taking: how to advance inclusion through clean energy jobs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/a-green-new-deal-worth-taking-how-to-advance-inclusion-through-clean-energy-jobs/) - The Green New Deal is dominating the headlines, but what does this really mean for workers? A new report released by the Brookings Institute today offers some important insights.
- [Activists call on NY to adopt fully electric vehicle fleet by 2040](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/activists-call-on-ny-to-adopt-fully-electric-vehicle-fleet-by-2040/) - Transportation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gases in the state, and the only sector where emissions haven’t decreased since 1990, according to state data. On Thursday, the ElectrifyNY coalition targeted buses and other mass transit-related vehicles in the state.
- [MTA’s two-decade plan for all-electric fleet lacks details, transit advocates say](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/mtas-two-decade-plan-for-all-electric-fleet-lacks-details-transit-advocates-say/) - If the MTA needs 21 years to make its bus fleet fully electric, it ought to have a detailed plan, transit advocates said Thursday.
- [ElectrifyNY activists seek state transition to fully electric vehicle fleets by 2040](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/electrifyny-activists-seek-state-transition-to-fully-electric-vehicle-fleets-by-2040/) - ElectrifyNY, a coalition of environmental, transit, and social justice advocates, is calling for New York state and its municipalities to fully transition to electric vehicles by 2040.
- [How reverse-CPRA lawsuits harm the public’s right to know](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/in-the-news/how-reverse-cpra-lawsuits-harm-the-publics-right-to-know/) - Instead of receiving responses to their requests for government records under the California Public Records Act, some journalists and news outlets have been served with lawsuits seeking to keep records private. This disturbing trend — known as reverse-CPRA-lawsuits — is intended to discourage the press and public from seeking records that could shed light on

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- [Labor](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/labor/)
- [Climate Change](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/climate-change/)
- [Manufacturing](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/manufacturing/)
- [Economy](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/economy/)
- [Feminism](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/feminism/)
- [Infrastructure/Transportation](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/infrastructure-transportation/)
- [Racial Justice](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/racial-justice/)
- [Transparency](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/transparency/)
- [Worker Stories](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/worker-stories/)
- [JMA National](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/catalog/jma-national/)

## Types

- [Reports & Policy Briefs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/reports/)
- [Webinars](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/webinars/)
- [Multimedia](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/videos/)
- [Big Ideas](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/big-ideas/)
- [Factsheets](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/factsheets/)
- [Policy + Programs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/policy-area/)
- [Climate Justice Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/climate-justice-policies/)
- [Transparency and Sunshine Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/transparency-and-sunshine-policies/)
- [Good Jobs Policies](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/good-jobs-policies/)
- [Workforce Equity Programs](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/workforce-equity-programs/)
- [Community Benefits Agreements](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/community-benefits-agreements/)
- [Letters](https://jobstomoveamerica.org/resource_type/letters/)