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The report by Jobs to Move America, based on a survey and interviews of workers at Freedman Seating Company, raises questions about job quality at a significant supplier of public-sector transit components.
This week we learned of concerning allegations involving Los Retros (Maurisio Tapia) who was originally scheduled to headline a free community concert in El Centro this weekend that JMA is a part of. Los Retros will no longer perform at the event, and we have asked that any publicity or mention of our name be …
JMA Congratulates the City of Los Angeles on Passing a Motion to Safeguard Against Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Unsafe or Unlawful Working Conditions in Public Purchasing Los Angeles—Jobs to Move America congratulates the City of Los Angeles on passing a newmotion, led by Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, that strengthens responsible publicprocurement and responds to recent …
On Jan 16., Neighbors for a Better Micron and Jobs to Move America filed an initial lawsuit in an attempt to force the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency to issue a more extensive report on Micron’s potential environmental impact, including greenhouse gas emissions and “forever chemicals.”
Neighbors for a Better Micron, representing community members who live near the facility, and nonprofit Jobs to Move America, which advocates for public goods, are petitioning the court to vacate Micron’s final environmental impact statement for the new facility.
The group Neighbors for a Better Micron believes Onondaga County and the state rushed its legally required environmental review of the project to ensure Micron didn’t take the project to another state.
Petitioners Jobs to Move America and Neighbors for a Better Micron argued that not enough is being done to address potentially harmful effects from Micron construction at White Pines Commerce Park in the Town of Clay, N.Y.
Just hours before January’s groundbreaking, Neighbors for a Better Micron, a coalition of local residents opposed to the plant, filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court arguing the project’s final environmental impact statement failed to comply with the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act.
The lawsuit filed by Neighbors for a Better Micron asks an Albany Supreme Court judge to rescind an air permit issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation to Micron as well as a water permit for Onondaga County‘s Oak Orchard Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Neighbors for a Better Micron and Jobs to Move America filed suit in Albany County Supreme Court seeking to overturn air and wastewater permits for the company’s planned $100 billion megafab in Clay, New York. The opposition is a reminder that industrial policy meets local politics at some point.
