Job Quality in Alabama and Mississippi’s Manufacturing Facilities
JMA’s Angela Dawson talks about our recent report about manufacturing jobs in Alabama and Mississippi.
Education Workers Deserve To Be Properly Compensated For Their Labor of Love
by Martin Barrera, California Senior Workforce Equity Coordinator The United For L.A. Schools Rally on March 15 As a former high school teacher in Los Angeles, I have been reflecting on the ongoing strike by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)
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
Creating Good Jobs Through the CHIPS and Science Act
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.
Southern labor ain’t 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
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
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
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
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.
Let’s Honor Rosa Parks by Creating Equity in Transit—For Riders and Workers
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
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