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Massachusetts Worker Co-Op Greenhouse Announces Expansion Plans
Solar-Power Developers Pledge to Buy U.S. Panels—If Someone Makes Them
Solar-Power Developers Pledge to Buy U.S. Panels—If Someone Makes Them
- Wellspring Cooperatives co-director Fred Rose discusses plans to double the size of the Wellspring Harvest commercial greenhouse at celebration of the worker co-ops 4th anniversary. Commercial hydroponic greenhouse has been a success after 4 years A worker-owned cooperative commercial hydroponic greenhouse today celebrated four years in business in Springfield, Massachusetts. The greenhouse was constructed on a once notoriously polluted property – the former Chapman Valve factory in the city’s Indian Orchard neighborhood. Since its inception, the Wellspring Harvest greenhouse has grown more than 340,000 heads of lettuce that have been sold to local supermarkets, hospitals, college cafeterias, and to individuals through online ordering. ...Read More
Solar-Power Developers Pledge to Buy U.S. Panels—If Someone Makes Them
Solar-Power Developers Pledge to Buy U.S. Panels—If Someone Makes Them
Solar-Power Developers Pledge to Buy U.S. Panels—If Someone Makes Them
- Renewable-energy group offers to buy billions of dollars of U.S.-made solar panels over four years, but government support might be needed to get domestic manufacturing off the ground
- A group wants to entice solar-panel makers to expand or set up U.S. production, creating a more-robust domestic supply chain; solar panels atop a building in Los Angeles last week.
- A group of U.S. renewable-energy developers is making a $6 billion offer to solar manufacturers: Build panels in the U.S. and we will buy them.
- The group—AES Corp., Clearway Energy Group, Cypress Creek Renewables and D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments—is offering to buy as much as 7 gigawatts worth of U.S.-made solar panels a year. That is equivalent to more than a quarter of what the U.S. installed last year. ...Read more
A Furnace Maker Passes Along the Flame—Not to Family, But to Workers
Solar-Power Developers Pledge to Buy U.S. Panels—If Someone Makes Them
A Furnace Maker Passes Along the Flame—Not to Family, But to Workers
- We believe that owning stock in their own company will lead these new owners to make more suggestions for improving performance, become long-term members of the team, and work more cooperatively with colleagues, thereby encouraging everyone to perform at their highest standard. It is the best path for everyone to feel inspired, safe and fulfilled each day, knowing that their work matters in the greater economy. ...Read More
Why a Green New Deal Requires a Solidarity Economy
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
Johanna Bozuwa, Nonprofit Quarterly
October 6, 2021
- When, back in November 2018, Sunrise Movement organizers sat in protest in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and called for a Green New Deal, they broke a cycle of stale federal climate advocacy. The Green New Deal caught people’s imagination, because it opened a new frame that took us beyond “jobs versus climate” . ...Read More
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
- There are two types of people: those who have ideas and those who turn those ideas into reality.
- It all began when Baker saw the need for an education system that provided the type of workers that his company, which provides thermoformed products for the automotive, electronics, general industrial and consumer goods sector, needs.
- Having been involved for many years in education, as the president of the board of education at age 32, he explored the options available locally and in the region and decided the way to go was to revive the former “shop” training.
- But his program had a twist. “Much like schools have Boys and Girls Scout clubs, why not have a manufacturing club? ...Read More
Why We Like the America COMPETES Act
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
Why We Like the America COMPETES Act
- The Manufacturing Renaissance Campaign has initiated the introduction of HR 5124 into the House of Representatives by Cong. Jan Schakowsky. We see four paths. First--the bill could be adopted. Second--the White House could implement sections of the bill through Executive Order. Third--various departments like the Department of Commerce and/or the Department of Labor could adopt the programs we are promoting. Finally, our language could be used as amendments to other bills. This last path is already taking place. As reflected in the memo from The Century Foundation, our language on inclusion has found its way into the America Competes Act of 2022. Here's the link
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Our Leadership Team
- Michael Bennett ( African-American Leadership and Policy Institute, DePaul University, Economic Development), Michelle Burris (The Century Foundation, Fellow), Teresa Cordova (Great Cities Institute, Director), Robert Creamer (Democracy Partners, Consultant), Carl Davidson (SolidarityEconomy.net, Editor). Doug Gamble (UNITE and ACTWU. retired), Leticia Mederos (Clark Hill Law, Senior Managing Director), Alan Minsky (Progressive Democrats of America, Executive Director), David Robinson (Manufacturing Renaissance, External Affairs), Erica Staley (Manufacturing Renaissance, Executive Director), Andy Stettner (Century Foundation, Senior Fellow), Dan Swinney (Manufacturing Renaissance, Founder), Tim Wright (McCormick Theological Seminary).
Chicago Teachers Union Backs HR 5124 and Our Campaign
- Whereas Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a CTU supporter, has filed HR 5124, a bill to expand and fund manufacturing training programs, including Manufacturing Connect, in the US House of Representatives, and the language of that bill has been included in other pieces of legislation that are moving through the Congressional legislative process. Therefore,
- Be it resolved that the Chicago Teachers Union supports HR 5124 and the use of the bill’s language in other legislative measures, and
- Be it further resolved that CTU representatives will actively advocate that other affiliated organizations including but not limited to the American Federation of Teachers, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Chicago Federation of Labor, and the Illinois AFL-CIO also become supporters of the aforementioned legislative measures.
- Read Full Resolution Here.
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- Are you aware about what we're doing? Are you an elected official or a leader in civil society and causes that care about our future and the health of the planet? Add your name and energy!
- Photo: Toni Preckwinkle, President of the Cook County Board of Commisioners, is now among our enthusiastic backers. Read her endorsement letter here
Endorsing Letter from 100 Black Men of Chicago
- It's with great excitement that we, 100 Black Men of Chicago, Inc. (100BMC) endorse HR 5124 also known as the Manufacturing Renaissance Corporation Act. We will be encouraging our network of churches, corporate and legislative leaders to join us in supporting this much needed bill to improve the Illinois economic landscape. When passed, we see this bill as a game changer for the middle class building jobs and increasing the tax base for the state.
- Read full letter here