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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Let’s get to work
Now is our time to put people power, workers, and racial justice at the core of our new government’s agenda.
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.
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.
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.