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Massachusetts Worker Co-Op Greenhouse Announces Expansion Plans
The Challenge: Business Succession in Manufacturing & the Opportunities for Diversifying Ownership
Manufacturing Renewal Leaders Laud Thrust of CHIPs Act, After Influencing Measures in the Bill
- 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
Manufacturing Renewal Leaders Laud Thrust of CHIPs Act, After Influencing Measures in the Bill
The Challenge: Business Succession in Manufacturing & the Opportunities for Diversifying Ownership
Manufacturing Renewal Leaders Laud Thrust of CHIPs Act, After Influencing Measures in the Bill
- By David Robinson
- In a rare bipartisan congressional agreement, the U.S. House and Senate passed the CHIPS and Science Act last week, a significant step toward enacting substantial jobs and competitiveness legislation.
- The bill provides substantial tax credits to boost domestic green manufacturing, which will help support the emerging Electronic Vehicle and alternative energy industries. There is also language that calls for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to receive record investments in STEM--Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. This will build their science education capacity and ability to apply for massive government research grants more successfully.
- Additionally, Congress authorized $50 billion to bolster semi-conductor research and manufacturing. This included more funding to create at least two regional technology hubs and to support manufacturing education, training, and jobs, a feature of the bill hailed explicitly by manufacturing industry advocates around the country. Read More
The Challenge: Business Succession in Manufacturing & the Opportunities for Diversifying Ownership
The Challenge: Business Succession in Manufacturing & the Opportunities for Diversifying Ownership
The Challenge: Business Succession in Manufacturing & the Opportunities for Diversifying Ownership
AND AUDRA LADD
- America is facing a generational opportunity to strengthen and diversify the nation’s manufacturing business ownership.
- Baby Boomers that currently own their own businesses but are seeking to retire will need to find new owners, creating the conditions for a so-called silver tsunami of ownership transition. But without intentional efforts and deliberate policy choices by states and the federal government, diversification in business ownership is unlikely to occur and this vital economic sector could be weaker.
- With this perspective in mind, The Century Foundation (TCF) and Urban Manufacturing Alliance (UMA) are analyzing opportunities in this silver tsunami to facilitate diversification. The Urban Manufacturing Alliance already works with Community Development Financial Institutions and other mission-based lenders to spark diverse entrepreneurship in manufacturing. Much of this work, however, only supports innovators who have already started their own new firms and are seeking new forms of capital to grow them. Read More
Clean Energy Projects Surge After Climate Bill Passage
Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
Battery plant in Georgia
By Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
New York Times, Sept 9, 2022
- Investments in battery factories, solar panel manufacturing and mining will help the Biden administration meet targets for reducing greenhouse gases.
- Other companies have announced investments in similar factories in recent weeks
- In the weeks since President Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects to produce the kind of technology the legislation aims to promote.
- Toyota said it would invest an additional $2.5 billion in a factory in North Carolina to produce batteries for electric cars and hybrids. ...Read More
Getting the Job Done: Local Manufacturers Help Create High School Curriculum
Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment
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
Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment
Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment
Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment
- ... with often overlooked costs for Black, Brown, and other workers of color..
- This chartbook shows that the loss of manufacturing jobs has been particularly devastating for Black and Hispanic workers and other workers of color, who represent a disproportionate share of those without a college degree, and for whom discrimination has limited access to better-paying jobs. It calls for creating millions of good jobs for workers at every level of education by investing in infrastructure and rebalancing trade. When implemented with clearly defined racial and gender equity goals, these investments can help raise living standards for men and women workers of color without a college degree.
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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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- 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