Updates
- 5 Reasons to Support SB 674, California’s High Road Jobs Program
- A Call to Action we Can’t Ignore
- A climate-safe future is a good jobs future
- A New Dawn of JMA Organizing
- America’s Fight to Create Good Jobs with Federal Money
- As Extreme Weather Increases, We Must Learn Lessons From Hurricane Katrina
- Birmingham Leverages Public Funding for the Most Public Good with Historic Local Hire Ordinance
- Black History Month 2025: Honoring Black Labor and Uplifting Black Voices
- Black Lives Matter: Solidarity with racial justice protesters across the country
- Bringing Green Transit, Green Jobs to New York
- Building a more inclusive climate justice movement
- California manufacturers hit new training milestones
- Celebrating Black leaders in labor and transportation
- Column: ‘American Factory’ tells an all too familiar story
- Column: A challenge to American business, fight for infrastructure spending, or suffer the consequences
- Column: A Green New Deal worth taking
- Column: Let’s electrify public buses without throwing workers under the bus
- Column: Manufacturers have a recruiting problem. So why aren’t they hiring more women?
- Column: Public officials should say ‘no’ to economic incentives that don’t advance the public good
- Column: What is a good economic development deal? Not the New York Amazon one.
- Column: What should ‘Buy America’ look like in a post-covid world?
- Congress takes a first step to give second chances, manufacturers should follow
- Corporate giveaways gutted the South’s safety net, recovering from COVID-19 requires rebuilding it
- Creating good jobs as California transitions to electric buses
- Creating Good Jobs Through the CHIPS and Science Act
- Education Workers Deserve To Be Properly Compensated For Their Labor of Love
- Elected Officials Must Act on Racist Violence in the U.S.
- Erica Iheme on Investing in the Future of Organizing
- Fear on the factory floor is bad for business
- Good jobs can break the crisis-recovery cycle
- How JMA is ensuring the infrastructure bill works for all of us
- How New York can lead on climate action, good jobs, and pandemic recovery
- How to Ensure Recent Federal Investments Benefit Workers and Communities
- How to operationalize a just transition
- How transit workers can succeed in our transition to a green energy future
- Indigenous peoples must have a seat at the table in electric vehicle mining negotiations
- JMA Co-Hosts Community Benefits Agreements Webinar With The Aspen Institute
- JMA recommendations in White House task force report
- JMA Staff Reflects on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade
- JMA’s Community Benefits Agreement With New Flyer: One Year Later
- Jobs to Move America announces new leadership structure and appointment
- Jobs to Move America files lawsuit against LA Metro alleging violations of state and federal contracting law
- Jobs to Move America Stands with Black Workers Following Racist Remarks from Los Angeles City Council President
- Jobs to Move America urges White House to repeal local hire ban to maximize benefits of infrastructure investment
- John Porcari: For real recovery, let’s rethink infrastructure spending
- LA Metro Adopts the Most Comprehensive Good Jobs Policy in Green Transit Manufacturing
- Legal, but despicable: Employers looking to cash in on stimulus checks
- Let’s get to work
- Let’s Honor Rosa Parks by Creating Equity in Transit—For Riders and Workers
- Local Hire Provision in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)
- Manufacturing Jobs for Women event
- New video showcases JMA’s work and vision for the green economy
- New York needs to Go Green
- OMB’s Uniform Grants Guidance Updates Take Effect Today, Empowering Communities and Workers
- On Anniversary of Roe, Freedom for Workers Means Reproductive Rights
- On National Coming Out Day, we still have work to do to ensure LGBTQI+ people are safe at work
- Pandemic, hurricanes, wildfires: Why we need worker-centered climate policy
- Policy for the people: A teach-in about our good jobs policy at the Chicago Transit Authority
- Policy for the Public! Community Forums
- Public Money Anywhere = Good Jobs and CBAs Everywhere
- Racism is in the Water in Jackson, But We Can’t Give Up on the South
- Realizing democracy
- Recovery from COVID-19? Not without real public oversight
- Reopening the economy makes us martyrs to economic growth
- Solidarity with Amazon workers from the Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits
- Solidarity with Asian American communities across the country
- Southern Program 2024 Alabama Learning Trip
- Take action: Demand public accountability in California
- Take to the digital streets for Earth Day
- Taking on COVID-19
- The Intertwined Struggles of Civil Rights and Labor
- The South got something to say
- The South Keeps Winning
- This California bill is a win for communities and transparency
- This Earth Day, Let’s Invest in Workers
- This Labor Day, thank workers by supporting the PRO Act
- Title: Solidarity in the South: Transformative Wins for Auto Workers
- To build a worker-centered economy, pass the PRO Act
- Transit Equity Day: Why New Jersey’s public transit can’t wait
- Tribute to Larry Willis
- Two women’s visions of diversity, equity, and inclusion in infrastructure
- Union Gives Confidence to School Bus Manufacturing Worker About EV Transition
- Union Provides Education and Equality for School Bus Manufacturing Worker
- Using Local and Economically-Targeted Hire to Promote Good Jobs Through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Virtual Event: Is a New Southern Worker Movement Possible?
- Warehouse Workers for Justice Report Uplifts Need for Good Jobs and Clean Air in Joliet
- Watch Our Alabama Learning Trip Recap Video
- We Still Have Work to Do to Win True Freedom for Workers
- Welcome to our new website!
- What the pundits are missing this Super Tuesday
- Why we’re organizing to overturn the ban on local hire
- Worker Story: Armando Acosta
- Worker Story: Daniel Cervantes
- Workers and kids are winning big with electric school buses–but there’s a long way to go
Resources
- “Good Jobs: Making the Most of Infrastructure Investments” Panel
- About JMA factsheet
- Accelerator for America: Maximizing Investment for Job and Small Business Growth
- Alabama A&M: Are good jobs possible in the deep South?
- Alabama Team Fact Sheet
- Analysis of USDOT Local Labor Hiring Pilot: Local hire increases opportunities for disadvantaged workers, strengthens local economies
- Ban Secret Deals: How to Take On the Economic Development Subsidy Machine
- Build Local, Hire Local
- BYD Apprenticeship Readiness Training
- CARB Innovative Clean Transit Rule
- Chicago Good Jobs Pipeline
- Chicago Ready for 100
- Clean Buses for New York Kids
- Climate and Community Investment Act
- Climate Justice Policies
- Climate Smart Ports Act
- Coalition Letter on proposed memorandum of understanding (MOU) between EPA and Department of Labor
- Comments on U.S. Department of Transportation Notice of Proposed Rulemaking DOT OST-2015-0013-0002
- Community Benefits Agreements
- Contracting Careers Opportunity Policy Ordinance at CTA
- Creating U.S. Manufacturing Jobs: How “Buying American” Can Raise the Job-Creation Potential of Public Transit Investments
- Diversity for Hire: Astroturfing, New Flyer, and the Transportation Diversity Council
- Doing The People’s Business
- Driving the Future: How to Electrify our School Buses and Center Kids, Communities, and Workers in the Transition
- Electric buses are creating jobs in SoCal
- Electric vehicles should be a win for American workers
- Electrify NY Green Transit, Green Jobs Press Event
- Fact Sheet: Empowering Cities and States: Making Federal Funds Work for Our Communities
- Good Jobs Policies
- Good Jobs through LA DOT’s purchasing process
- Good Jobs through LA Metro’s purchasing process
- Green Transit, Green Jobs
- Harnessing Government Spending to Revitalize Good Manufacturing Jobs
- Harnessing the Power of Procurement: Issues, Considerations, and Best Practices to Advance Equity in the Contracting of PublicGoods and Services
- How much would it cost to electrify the nation’s school buses?
- Inclusive Procurement and Contracting: Building a Field of Policy and Practice
- JMA California team handout
- JMA Illinois factsheet
- JMA New York team factsheet
- LA Metro Zero-Emissions Bus Transition
- League of Women Voters Alabama: Civic Engagement and Advocacy Training
- Letter to OMB on Uniform Guidance Updates – April 2022
- Lift the ban on local hire campaign factsheet
- Local and Economically-Targeted Hire Brochure
- Local Opportunities Campaign Summer 2023 Congressional Letter
- Local Opportunities Coalition comment in response to Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information
- Local Opportunities Coalition Comment in Response to Proposed Updates to Uniform Guidance
- Los Angeles DOT Electric Bus Transition
- LRAN Conference 2022: Building Power for Black and Brown Workers
- Make It In America: The Apollo Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan
- Manufacturing Careers Policy at the MTA
- Memo: Effect of U.S. Employment Plan on Competitive Bidding
- Moving Forward: Toward Women’s Equity and Inclusion in the Rail and Transit Sector
- National program factsheet
- New York MTA Electric Bus Transition
- Our CBA with electric bus builder BYD
- Our CBA with electric bus builder New Flyer
- Our CBA with electric bus builder Proterra
- Our CBA with railcar manufacturer CRRC
- Pathways to an Equitable and Just Energy Transition: Jobs and Workforce Development workshop
- Pathways to Equity: Effective Transportation Career Partnerships
- Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions
- Project Labor Agreement Resource Guide
- Providing Training for Zero Emission Buses: Recommended Expanded RFP Language
- Public Transit Procurement: A National Initiative to Promote Economic Prosperity and to Unite Communities, Workers and Business
- Purchasing for the Common Good 201
- Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th Century Battle Over South African Apartheid and Lessons For The Trump Era
- Report: Job Quality and Community Well-Being in Mississippi and Alabama’s Manufacturing Facilities
- Report: Using Local and Economically-Targeted Hire to Promote Good Jobs Through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Reviving the U.S. Rail and Transit Industry
- SB 674: California’s High-Road Jobs Program
- Southern Manufacturing’s Impact on Jobs and Community report presentation
- Strengthening Skills Training and Career Pathways Across the Transportation Industry
- Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing Through Public Procurement Policies
- Sunshine in California Public Contracts
- Taking the High Road to Cleaner Air for Kids and Communities
- The Hidden Costs of Alabama’s Tax Incentives
- The History of Privatization
- The Power of Inclusive Procurement
- Toward a New Procurement Law: Reclaiming Competition for the Common Good
- Transforming Transit, Realizing Opportunity
- Transparency and Sunshine Policies
- U.S. Employment Plan
- U.S. Manufacture of Rail Vehicles for Intercity Passenger Rail and Urban Transit
- Webinar: Community Benefits Agreements (CBA) 101
- Webinar: Leveraging Federal Infrastructure Dollars for Good Jobs in Communities that Need them Most
- Webinar: Reimagining Procurement Law to Maximize State & Local Benefits of Infrastructure Investments
- Webinar: Using Federal Funds to Create Local Infrastructure Jobs
- What is a CBA? factsheet
- Women Can Build: Re-envisioning Rosie
- Worker-centered state climate policy in Illinois
- Workforce Equity Programs
Press Releases
- ‘Women Can Build’ photography exhibit highlights working women in U.S. manufacturing and transportation
- A pathway to 22,000 jobs: LA County Metro Board unanimously approves first-of-its-kind good jobs policy
- A Power Surge in the Deep South: New Flyer’s Alabama Plant Electrifies Labor Rights Movement
- After rally, LA Metro committee supports permanent jobs and equity policy, creating a pathway to 22,000 jobs
- Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits Believes Strong Community Support Gave Amazon Bessemer Unionization Drive a Boost
- Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits Drives Successful Community Education Program on Workers’ Rights, Amazon Unionization
- Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits releases solidarity video in support of Amazon workers in Bessemer
- Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits Supports Amazon Workers’ Unionization Drive
- Alabama groups issue request for proposals from organizations to handle worker discrimination, harassment complaints
- As school systems recover, new research reveals how New York can speed up equitable transition to electric school buses
- Building Birmingham’s Workforce: A Milestone for Economic Empowerment in the City of Birmingham
- California Air Resources Board commits to zero emission buses and job creation in new rule
- Chicago Federation of Labor and JMA receive $4 million award for workforce development in Chicago
- Chicago Leaders Celebrate Pro-Worker Changes to Federal Guidelines
- Chicago Transit Authority restarts $2 billion railcar procurement with strong manufacturing job-creating approach
- Civil Rights Leaders, Labor Unions and Community Coalitions Demand Hyundai Raise Standards in Wake of Child Labor Scandals and Construction Worker Death
- Coalition Calls for Community Benefits Agreement With Lion Electric
- Coalition of 160+ local officials, organizations, and academics calls on Biden administration to overturn ban on local hire, create local jobs and fix economy
- Coalition to transit companies: create jobs with taxpayer-funded transit projects
- CTA chooses manufacturer for newest-generation rail cars
- Delegation of 15 Illinois community, faith, labor leaders visits Nippon Sharyo railcar factory to express severe concerns over workplace hazards
- Dept. of Transportation Secretary Foxx to transit officials: Maximize impact of $305 Billion FAST Act to create U.S. jobs
- Electric bus manufacturer BYD Motors renews landmark community benefits agreement
- ElectrifyNY coalition launches to fight for equitable electric transportation future
- ElectrifyNY Press Statement on 2022 New York State Budget
- EV Bus Manufacturer Proterra Closes Unionized LA Factory to move to Anti-Union South
- Experts from Jobs to Move America coalition submit input in Department of Transportation comment period for local job creation initiative
- Gov. Cuomo and the New York MTA announce major victory for local communities and U.S. workers
- Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs SB 674, California’s High Road Jobs Program, Into Law
- Illinois Jobs to Move America coalition offers workforce development expertise to railcar manufacturers vying for $2 billion Chicago Transit Authority contract
- ITLC and JMA release report on providing training to workers for zero emission buses
- JMA and Caltech celebrate International Women’s Day
- JMA provides public comment on draft DOT strategic plan
- JMA Southern Director Erica Iheme Wins Prestigious Game Changer Award
- JMA statement on USDOT Ladders of Opportunity initiatives
- JMA to LA Metro on $1 billion purchase of heavy railcars: hold manufacturers accountable to creating good manufacturing jobs
- Jobs to Move America and the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union announce the signing of the organization’s first staff contract
- Jobs to Move America Files Lawsuit Against LA Metro Alleging Violations of State and Federal Contracting Law
- Jobs to Move America holds “Know Your Rights” action in front of BYD headquarters
- Jobs to Move America joins growing trend of U.S. non-profits unionizing
- Jobs to Move America launches as new national organization focused on economic opportunity in transportation
- Jobs to Move America Launches Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center
- Labor and Community Groups Call On Micron to Adopt Good Jobs Platform Amid Company’s $6.1 Billion Award in Federal Funding
- Labor and community groups sign landmark agreement with electric bus manufacturer BYD in Los Angeles
- Labor and community groups sign landmark Community Benefits Agreement with Proterra
- Live from APTA: Dept. of Transportation promotes second chances through manufacturing job training opportunities
- Major electric vehicle manufacturer signs first multi-state agreement with community and civil rights group for equitable hiring and good jobs
- Maria Svart, New Deputy Executive Director on the Choice Before Us
- 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
- MTA commits to U.S. jobs with new $3.2 billion subway car purchase
- National transportation expert and labor leader Ed Wytkind to receive LAANE City of Justice award
- New report details the impact of transitioning the nation’s 500,000 school buses to electric vehicles
- New report: Clean air and good jobs are achievable if cities and states plan for it
- New study examines real impact of “Buy America” and other public procurement initiatives
- Nippon Sharyo Railcar Manufacturing Workers Ask OSHA to Investigate Dangerous Plant Conditions
- OSHA complaints reveal dangerous, unhealthy working conditions at Nippon Sharyo railcar factory in Illinois
- Protest denounces broken promises by BYD Motors, Inc., Chinese electric bus manufacturer to taxpayers of LA
- Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th century battle over South African apartheid and lessons for the Trump era
- Report: Job Quality and Community Challenges Persist in Alabama and Mississippi Manufacturing Facilities
- Statement: California high-speed rail
- Telebriefing: city and state leaders harness $4.4 billion transportation spending for quality jobs, leading national shift
- Toward a New Procurement Law: Reclaiming Competition for the Common Good
- Transit and labor leaders address the power of transportation investment to transform lives and communities
- Transportation Unions and Jobs to Move America Demand Transparency on MTA’s Multi-Billion Dollar Kawasaki Rail Car Contract
- Trump administration drops local hire program that would have employed hundreds of thousands of workers in their own communities
- U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, Jobs to Move America Announce New Pathways into Good Jobs in Manufacturing
- U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration hits Nippon Sharyo with 11 violations in Illinois factory
- United Auto Workers and Community Groups Demand Accountability From Hyundai Ahead of Major Transit Contract Approval
- Valle Unido Coalition Charts a Pathway Forward to a Community-Centered Lithium Valley
- White House Empowers Local Economies with Update to Federal Guidelines
- Workforce development webinar educates bus manufacturers
- World’s biggest railcar manufacturers learn about U.S. workforce development, prepare bids for Amtrak and California high-speed trains
In the News
- ¡Nueva York reconoce a todas las mujeres en su día!
- ‘American Factory’: Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize worker mistreatment
- ‘Monumental’: Chicago commits to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040
- ‘N.Y. Green Transit/Green Jobs’ legislation gaining steam
- ‘We’re Gonna Win’: Alabama Mercedes Workers Begin UAW Vote
- ‘Women Can Build: Re-Envisioning Rosie’ art exhibit highlights working women at White House summit
- ‘Made In America’ Should Not Mean ‘Made Under Injustice’
- “Natural gas is so 90s”: Coalition pushes for Metro fully electric bus fleet by 2030
- Southern labor ain’t cheap: It costs
- 20 graduate from BYD and SMART’s manufacturing apprenticeship program
- 5 Questions with Patricia Todd: Alabama’s Transparency Problem
- A challenge to American business: fight for infrastructure spending, or suffer the consequences.
- A Closer Look at the Critical Minerals and Battery Components White Paper
- A Green New Deal worth taking: how to advance inclusion through clean energy jobs
- A huge EV factory is coming to west Tennessee. Here’s how locals are ensuring they benefit.
- A manufacturing pulse beat in the heartland
- A modern-day war on poverty needs new tools. Why not make them in the US?
- A more inclusive Global Climate Action Summit can stop us from ‘losing Earth’
- A new divestment movement against Trump gears up
- A new public art exhibition shares the stories of women in the building trades
- A pathway to 22,000 jobs: Los Angeles County Metro Board unanimously approves first-of-its-kind good jobs policy
- AAMU researchers reveal report on manufacturing industry in Alabama
- Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su visits New Flyer plant in Anniston
- Activists call on NY to adopt fully electric vehicle fleet by 2040
- Administration scraps local-hiring plan for public works
- Advancements in electric buses making green transit more accessible
- Advancements in electric buses making green transit more accessible for rural areas
- AL Politics This Week: Dark Days (Guest: Former State Rep. Patricia Todd)
- Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits supports Amazon workers’ unionization drive
- Alabama Mercedes-Benz union vote underway: What’s at stake in this historic labor fight?
- Alabama says they are safe enough for KFC, but too dangerous for parole
- Alabama’s $4 Billion in Corporate Giveaways with Patricia Todd
- Alabama’s corporate subsidies cost $4 billion over three decades, report says
- Alabama’s new transparency law is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done
- Alabama’s new transparency law is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done
- Amazon gets billions while state and local government budgets collapse
- Amazon says it pays Alabama workers well; other local employers pay more
- Amazon workers’ fight to unionize draws help from around the world
- Amazon, union organizers face off again in Alabama
- Amazon’s union vote: What the election at an Alabama warehouse could mean
- American Factory tells an all too familiar story
- American workers throw NFI under the bus
- Amtrak and CHSRA seek job-creation strategy from high-speed train manufacturers
- Amtrak encourages American job creation with high-speed rail car manufacturers
- Amtrak wins praise for ‘American jobs’ request in contracts
- Another EV Factory Has Unionized Boosting Labor’s Push In US South
- Applying lessons from the anti-apartheid era to today
- Are American transit manufacturers afraid of American jobs?
- As Trump remakes the federal government, what might that mean for Micron’s NY project?
- Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike
- Biden Administration tweaks regulations for how states, cities can use federal funding
- Biden stays clear of endorsing union effort at Alabama Amazon warehouse
- Biden’s infrastructure plan endorses PRO Act, labor boosts
- Biden’s Labor-Climate Dilemma
- Biden’s jobs plan could build racial equity with one simple fix
- Big Day for NLC and Municipal Governments: Final Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Grants Guidance Released
- Birmingham Mayor Woodfin agrees to federal “Good Jobs Principles”
- Black American bus drivers at risk
- Black Workers Matter: How defunding police could create thousands of good jobs for Black communities
- Bringing back good manufacturing jobs to America, one electric bus at a time
- Building Our New Electric Fleet
- BYD commits to hiring from communities facing significant barriers to employment
- BYD funds training programs, employs disadvantaged workers at California plant
- BYD Motors Signs Community Benefits Agreement with SMART Local 105 and JMA
- BYD receives recognition for its commitment to advancing women in the workplace
- BYD signs jobs agreement at Lancaster plant
- BYD wants to make more buses in the U.S.
- BYD’s hiring pledge could charge up MTA bus deal
- Calif. high-speed rail authority, Amtrak seek join bids for trains to run on high-speed lines
- California mandates fleets to operate zero-emission buses by 2040
- California switching to zero-emission transit buses by 2040
- Can Trump succeed where Reagan failed?
- Can workers organize in the deep South during the pandemic?
- CARB commits to zero emission buses and job creation in new rule
- CBA proponents here seeking first win
- CCIA advocates make push with only weeks to go in session
- Celebrating the Black labor movement in America
- Chicago commits to 100 percent clean energy
- Chicago gets rolling toward good American jobs
- Chicago Transit Authority tackles racial employment disparity
- Chicago transportation plans aim to put disadvantaged back to work
- Chicago’s $2 billion decision: Will it buy U.S.?
- Cities nationwide, take notice: Los Angeles just committed to all electric transit buses & you can too
- Clean electric school buses are healthier for kids, but there could be a downside for workers
- Coalition aims to transform LA Metro to electric bus fleet
- Coalition claims Nippon wrongly fired worker
- Coalition hosts webinar and launches website to provide resources for manufacturers, rail experts, and advocates
- Column: What should ‘Buy America’ look like in a post-Covid world?
- Commentary: Green Transit, Green Jobs bill supports New York’s goals for climate and economy
- Congress takes first step to give second chances, manufacturers should follow
- Connecting public transit to great manufacturing jobs
- Corporate America’s latest trick: The reverse Public Records Act
- Corporate America’s latest trick: The reverse Public Records Act
- Could the Union Victory at VW Set Off a Wave?
- CTA asks manufacturers of $2 billion rapid transit cars to disclose American jobs plans for first time
- CTA breaks ground on new rail car factory
- CTA encourages bidders for rail car deal to detail US job creation
- CTA looks to create good jobs and racial fairness even as it grows
- CTA nears deal on more than 800 new rail cars
- CTA will quietly nudge rail car bidders to hire Americans
- CTA, peer transit agencies urge Biden administration to end local hiring ban
- Culver City, CA stands up to Big Oil, votes to phase out drilling in largest urban oil field in U.S.
- Cuomo issues RFP to manufacture new subway cars in the U.S.
- Deanne Fitzmaurice: Rosies
- DOE: Here’s what’s happened to EV, renewable, fossil jobs
- Editorial: Jobs building local transit projects should go to the communities paying for them
- Editorial: One way Biden can help Black and Latino communities recover
- Editorial: Taxpayer money can build transit projects — and a stronger middle class. L.A. Metro shows how
- Electric Bus Makers Pave the Way to Union Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers
- Electric bus manufacturing workforce training launched in Los Angeles
- Electric buses = more good, union jobs for low-income Californians
- Electric buses = more good, union jobs for low-income Californians
- Electric vehicle industry driving up salaries, report finds
- ElectrifyNY activists seek state transition to fully electric vehicle fleets by 2040
- Elon Musk thinks his treatment of workers is a “trade secret”
- Empowering Cities to Use Federal Funds to Create Local Jobs
- Ensuring the Green Jobs are Good Jobs
- Environmentalists challenge Metro leaders to buy all electric buses to curb climate change
- Exhibit highlights women who build
- Fear on the factory floor is bad for business
- Five arguments for American-made buses and how ‘The Atlantic Cities’ got it wrong
- Five policy prescriptions for transportation job creation and growth
- Ford’s U.A.W. Deal Will Raise Costs While Easing Labor Strife
- Foxconn fiasco proves manufacturing revival won’t happen without accountability
- Frontline workers call for investment in employees
- Game Changer Award awarded to Birmingham native Erica Iheme
- Go local, labor groups tell Chicago Transit Authority
- Gov. Cuomo announces Request for Proposals for new, reimagined subway cars released
- Green jobs must be good jobs. America’s investment in the energy transition should restore the pathway to the middle class
- Green New Deal or Stale Old Tax-Break Scam? Getting Electric Vehicle Incentives Right
- Green transit and jobs bills would boost upstate recovery
- Group calls for putting an end to alleged use of child labor at Hyundai suppliers
- Group: state taxpayers left in dark on industrial incentives
- Groups call on CTA to require new rail car makers to detail future local jobs
- Guest opinion: Alabama improves transparency in economic tax incentives; more is needed
- Harlem’s Rep. Adriano Espaillat secures multiple wins in critical House transportation bill
- Has Organized Labor Finally Cracked the South?
- How an innovative plan helped a veteran find work building railcars
- How Biden is trying to help working-class voters in red-state Alabama
- How billions of dollars in transportation spending can transform our communities
- How Birmingham reflects an entwined struggle for civil and labor rights
- How Corporate Subsidies Sink Small Businesses
- How Much Will the CHIPS Act Help the Workers Who Make Them?
- How New York could make better jobs in Alabama
- How reverse-CPRA lawsuits harm the public’s right to know
- How the CTA can create city jobs
- How to keep the robots from taking our jobs
- Imperial Valley residents launch coalition to demand accountability from lithium companies
- In Bessemer and the South, Black Workers Hold the Key
- In bid for new buses, LA demands American-made
- In government procurement, buying local is popular. But is it beneficial?
- In the Public Interest newsletter 5/31/22
- Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions
- Industry stakeholders weigh in on regulation, free trade, transit funding and other potential election-impacted issues
- Investing in public transit lifts up working people
- Is manufacturing’s future all used up?
- It’s electric! Dinowitz introduces green bills for NY buses and public transit jobs
- JMA Mentioned on “El Genio Lucas” Radio Show
- JMA Press Conference: 1st multi-state Community Benefits Agreement signed
- Job Quality in Alabama and Mississippi’s Manufacturing Facilities
- Jobs firm, BYD extend benefits agreement
- Jobs from Washington’s big infrastructure law will be ‘more fairly distributed’ thanks to this one provision, advocates say
- Jobs, transit and American communities
- L.A. approves full LADOT transit electrification by 2030
- L.A. Metro Board awards one of the largest single electric bus contracts in US history to BYD
- L.A. Metro OKs new policy aimed at creating local jobs
- L.A. Metro unanimously votes to order 60 electric BYD buses
- LA bus buy creates new US jobs. Let’s make sure other cities follow suit.
- LA County WDACS, Proterra, United Steelworkers Local 675, and community groups announce historic electric bus manufacturing and workforce partnerships
- LA Metro bus project to lift up disadvantaged workers
- LA Metro commits to 100 percent electric buses by 2030
- LA Metro-Contracted Bus Co. Settles Wage Fraud Suit For $7M
- LA Metro’s opportunity to lead
- LA Sanitation commits to 100 percent electric fleet by 2035
- LA’s lost opportunity for job creation
- Labor advocates sue Metro over $730-million contract to build subway cars. Will it hurt Olympic planning?
- Labor and community groups sign agreement with BYD in Los Angeles
- Labor and community groups sign landmark Community Benefits Agreement with Proterra
- Labor Day hope: transparency in public works contracts
- Labor groups: Future CTA rail car makers must disclose local job details
- Labor leaders hail bus maker pact to hire more women, minority workers
- Labor leaders hail bus maker pact to hire more women, minority workers
- Labor leaders: Demand a better Micron deal
- Landmark Community Benefits Agreement with New Flyer Will Lift Workers in Two States
- Lanzan líderes comunitarios nueva coalición
- Lawmakers, environmental advocates make green transit push
- Legislators and advocates announce push for ‘Green Transit/Green Jobs’ legislation in New York State
- Let’s electrify public buses without throwing workers under the bus
- Leveraging Public Funding to Strengthen Worker Protections
- Linking public works to local hiring faces a Trump challenge
- Local hiring gains steam as Biden pushes infrastructure, equity
- Looking for work? What Biden’s infrastructure bill could mean for California job seekers
- Manufacturers have a recruitment problem, so why aren’t they hiring more women?
- Maryland must make sure transit investments create jobs here
- Mayor Eric Garcetti joins coalition ask Biden to overturn local hire ban
- Mayor Walsh to Biden: Overturn ban on hiring local for federal projects
- Mayors join calls for Biden administration to end ban on local hires in federal infrastructure projects
- Mayors: End ban on local hiring for federal projects. These jobs are economic lifelines.
- Meet the black climate and social justice leaders you have never heard of
- Metro agrees to buy 95 electric buses, in the first step toward an emissions-free fleet
- Metro approves plan to move toward 100-percent electric bus fleet
- Metro bus fleet to go entirely electric
- Metro electric buses could deliver for workers as well as environment
- Micron’s $6B CHIPS funding should have more strings attached, critics say
- Minimum wage debate continues in Alabama
- Mississippi manufacturing workers report low job quality
- MTA New York City Transit acquiring hundreds of next-Generation subway cars to improve service
- MTA’s subway car RFP includes provision to encourage U.S. job creation
- MTA’s two-decade plan for all-electric fleet lacks details, transit advocates say
- Nearly Three Decades of Data on Women in Construction is Missing — Here’s How That Could Change
- New Coalition Calls for Justice in Lithium Valley Development
- New Flyer Workers in Anniston Successfully Unionize and Secure First Contract
- New public investments are creating new jobs. Let’s make sure they’re good ones.
- New study paints bleak picture of Alabama’s tradeoff of tax breaks for jobs
- New York MTA Vendor Kawasaki Says Revealing Pay Data Could ‘Agitate’ Staff
- New York set to acquire the next generation of subway cars
- Now is the Time to Unleash the Power of Cities and States to Build Back Better
- NYC features women in manufacturing in new photo exhibit
- NYC’s purchase of school buses should supercharge transition to electric fleet: advocates
- Opinion | Alabama improves transparency in Economic Tax Incentives
- OPINION: Racism is in the water in Jackson, but we can’t give up on the South
- Opinion: Why we need to Electrify America’s school bus fleet
- Over 70 workers hired to build CTA’s next-gen 7000-Series cars on SE side
- Pace piggybacks on Georgia e-bus order, approves Homewood facility upgrade funding
- Philly, L.A. transit agencies face questions over power plans
- Photos of hardworking women: new exhibit honors those in transportation
- President Obama: The solution to unprecedented inequality is good jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged
- Prowess of women builders on display in lower Manhattan photo exhibit
- Public contracts shrouded in secrecy
- Public interest group wins legal fees in transparency lawsuit
- Reagan vs. cities: the battle over South African apartheid and lessons for the Trump era
- Reagan-era regulations hold back good jobs policies in states and cities
- Reclaiming the Progressive Potential of Procurement
- Rejecting Scrooge-like transportation budgets in 2014
- Rep. Barragán introduces Climate Smart Ports Act to improve air quality and create good jobs in port communities across America
- Report on heavy-duty EVs highlights opportunity for social equity
- Report: Alabama’s incentives to businesses lack transparency, accountability
- Report: Calhoun County manufacturing workers facing low wages, unsafe working conditions, racial and gender discrimination
- Rick Smith Show: How Trump’s DOT policy will harm communities
- Scraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era
- Sure, watch ‘American Factory.’ But don’t think that all Chinese factories are like the one in the film
- The Art of the Green New Deal
- The car workers’ strike in the US is stress-testing the idea that green change and good jobs go hand in hand
- The Century Foundation on why manufacturing jobs are worth saving
- The Electric School Bus Is the Climate Hero We Need
- The great Los Angeles revolt against cars
- The Green Transit, Green Jobs bill can boost New York manufacturing
- The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: A new model for American liberalism?
- The MTA can rescue suffering workers: Use the capital plan to create good jobs
- The plan behind a Chicago project to lift up working people
- The route to infrastructure that benefits communities
- The South — and its batteries — looms over the UAW strike
- The time is now for action on job quality
- The V – September 5, 2021 – Guest: Former State Rep. Patricia Todd
- The Win for EV Workers in the South You Didn’t Hear About
- There’s Good News About the Labor Movement in the South
- Thinking outside our economic box: How transit investments can get U.S. manufacturing moving again
- This Labor Day, “Black lives matter” means justice for black workers
- This Woman’s Work
- Transit investments can transform communities
- Transport center stage in “Women Can Build” photo exhibit
- Transportation advocates commend states’ announcement to develop regional program to modernize transportation and reduce vehicle pollution
- Transportation labor joins the Jobs to Move America coalition
- Trump and Biden’s Michigan visits will present competing strategies for winning union voters
- Trump to undo Obama-era federal transportation jobs program that aided minority communities
- Trump’s Dept. of Transportation nixes “Hire Local” jobs idea
- Turning the tide on corporate giveaways in the South
- U.A.W. Strike Gains Could Reverberate Far Beyond Autos
- U.S. School Buses May Never Be The Same Thanks to Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
- U.S. Secretary of Labor makes visit in Capital City to discuss ways to improve work conditions in the Magnolia State
- U.S. workforce development webinar educates railcar manufacturers
- UAW strike exposes tensions between Biden’s goals of tackling climate change and supporting unions
- UAW wins big concessions from Big Three. Are foreign automakers next?
- UAW’s record deal could boost others’ wages as labor notches another victory
- Unionizing L.A. bus workers and their CEO come together over fighting climate change
- Unions battle “Scrooge” Congress on transportation needs
- United State of Women summit to feature Women Can Build: Re-envisioning Rosie Exhibit
- US Clean Energy Projects Need Public Buy-in. Community Benefits Agreements Can Help
- USDOT withdraws local-hiring plan for federally funded projects
- USPS should seriously consider letting Milwaukee build its new mail trucks
- Virtual event to focus on labor rights in the South
- Walsh and labor advocate push for more local jobs for I-81 project
- WATCH: Mayor Woodfin among 160 officials calling on Biden to overturn ban on ‘local hire’ policy
- We must invest in a transportation transition — and workers
- Westchester factory to build MTA subway cars
- What California and RFK Jr. have in common
- What the GM strikers teach us about government subsidies
- When cities fought the feds over apartheid
- Where to turn if you want American-made Amtrak trains
- Which transit agencies have endeavored to buy local this year?
- Why ‘Lithium Valley’ holds clues for the country
- Why Philanthropy Must Support Labor Justice
- Why The Assumption That Manufacturing Jobs Are “Good” Is Dead Wrong
- Why there’s little sunshine on many economic development deals in Florida — and beyond
- Why transit equity matters
- Will ‘Made in America’ Really Lead to Good Jobs?
- Winds of Change: Developing a Domestic Supply Chain & Good Jobs in the Offshore Wind Sector
- With the Environmental Bond Act’s Passage, Let’s Ensure the Green Transition Creates Good Jobs
- Women at work: ‘we can build anything’ – in pictures
- Women can build: the power of transportation investment
- Woodfin joins mayors calling for end to federal local hire ban
- Workers at an electric bus plant in Anniston unionized and won double-digit raises
