Electric vehicles are coming — but will manufacturing them provide good, family-supporting jobs that revitalize regional economies, reverse economic inequality, and close racial and gender wage gaps? Or will we allow anti-union employers to use public investments to deny workers’ rights, perpetuate injustice, and continue eroding job standards?
As the electric vehicle industry expands, we need to build public pressure for proactive, pro-worker, pro-community policies at federal, state, and local levels.
A new report from Economic Policy Institute Research Associate Gordon Lafer documents the legal and illegal tactics automakers routinely use to block workers from forming unions, and what’s urgently needed at this moment to curb these anti-democratic, anti-worker trends across the industry. Join this launch event featuring report highlights and discussion of implications for labor, racial, and climate justice.
Register for “Building Back Better or building back worse? The challenge of building a high-road electric vehicle industry with anti-union employers.”
Featured speakers:
Gordon Lafer, Professor, Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, and EPI Research Associate
Derrick Figures, Director, Labor and Economic Justice Program, Sierra Club
Cindy Estrada, Vice President, UAW
Kyle Moore, Economist, Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE), Economic Policy Institute
Moderator:
Jennifer Sherer, Senior State Policy Coordinator, EARN Worker Power Project, Economic Policy Institute
WHEN
Tuesday, November 9, 1 – 2 PM
WHERE
Online. Register here