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.
A Power Surge in the Deep South: New Flyer’s 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.
Another EV Factory Has Unionized Boosting Labor’s 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
‘We’re 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?
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.
Chicago Leaders Celebrate Pro-Worker Changes to Federal Guidelines
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
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
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)
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
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