Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
A new report from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) examines labor supply, demand, and potential shortages from new U.S. clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure laws: the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS and Science Act.
Press Releases & Statements / EV Charging and Infrastructure
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) measure to overturn a recently finalized and temporary U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) waiver of Buy America policies for electric vehicle (EV) chargers.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced more than $1 billion in grant awards to replace 2,700 existing school buses in school districts around the country with zero-emission and clean buses.
Press Releases & Statements / Workers' Rights
The United Auto Workers (UAW) today announced the ratification of contracts with the Big Three automakers—General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis. The contracts dramatically increase wages, end the tier systems, lay the groundwork to bring many of the automakers’ electric vehicle (EV) and battery facilities under the UAW’s master contracts, and much more. In response to the successful ratification of the contracts, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The environmental and labor partners of the BlueGreen Alliance understand that we don’t have to choose between good jobs and a clean environment. We can and must have both. It’s a false choice when companies claim they can’t pay workers family-supporting wages and at the same time manufacture EVs at a scale and pace to mee the climate moment. Yes they can.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
New analysis by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance and National Skills Coalition estimates that the combined investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS) will support nearly 3 million jobs per year over the life span of the laws.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst estimates that the combined investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS) will support nearly 3 million jobs per year and 19 million job-years over their lifetime.
Press Releases & Statements / Workers' Rights
Union contracts for nearly 150,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis expired on Thursday, September 14 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Those workers are now on strike or working without a contract. UAW is pushing for, among other items, fair and equal pay, safer workplaces—particularly in electric vehicle (EV) battery plants—and job security in the transition to EVs.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
‘EV Jobs Hub’ Charts Unionization, Investments in Disadvantaged Communities, and State and Local Subsidy Data for 188,000 Announced Jobs from $154 Billion in Investment in More Than 300 EV Facilities
Press Releases & Statements / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The Biden administration today announced new and updated funding opportunities aimed at supporting a domestic supply chain for the clean vehicles of the future and ensuring that the jobs building these vehicles provide community-sustaining wages and benefits in workplaces where workers have the free and fair choice to join a union. The package of announcements focuses on three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) programs that provide grants and loans to automakers building clean vehicles and their components here in the United States, the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program, the Battery Material Processing and Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grants Programs, and the new Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
One year ago today, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, putting the nation on a path to clean up the nation’s air and water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 42% by 2030. Over the last year, the law has already begun to revitalize U.S. manufacturing, grow clean energy, and support and create good union jobs across the country.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) pledging to work together to ensure the use of high-road labor standards on DOI and EPA funded projects. Lee Geisse, Ohio Regional Program Manager for the BlueGreen Alliance, joined the event, participating in a fireside chat about the importance of bringing together diverse stakeholders with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su.