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Alabama Political Reporter , May 22, 2024
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Workers at an electric bus plant in Anniston unionized and won double-digit raises

The workers’ successful unionization and new contract comes after New Flyer signed a community benefits agreement with Jobs to Move America, a policy center focused on economic justice, as part of a lawsuit settlement in May 2022.

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The New Republic, May 20, 2024
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There’s Good News About the Labor Movement in the South

The Anniston factory was New Flyer’s only Deep South facility and therefore its last in the United States to unionize. The campaign took nearly 10 years; the ball got rolling after Jobs to Move America, an alt-labor and civil rights

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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.

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May 16, 2024
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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

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The Real News Network, May 14, 2024
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‘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.”

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AL.com, May 14, 2024
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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.

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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

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The New York Times, April 20, 2024
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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

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Federal News Network , April 19, 2024
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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)