Job Quality

Building and Sustaining Worker Cooperatives in the US

Cooperatives are more resilient to economic shocks, experience lower turnover, and have higher productivity levels.

December 15, 2022
Group of garment workers

Procurement with Purpose: Improving Job Quality and Equity Through Public Procurement Reform

This paper offers principles and ideas on public procurement reform to ensure that more jobs are high quality, secure, and equitably accessible.

December 6, 2022
Cover page for the publication, “Procurement with Purpose: Improving Job Quality and Equity Through Public Procurement Reform.”

2023-2024 Local Workforce Leadership Academy Partners

The Academies bring together leaders to deepen networks, strengthen leadership, advance equity, and promote effective strategies and programs.

November 18, 2022

Centering Workers in Workforce Development

The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance collaborates with employers and stakeholders to boost employment, earnings, and equity for local workers.

November 14, 2022

Lessons and Leadership To Foster Economic Justice for Illinois Workers

LEP trains workers to promote equity, enforce rights, build unions, develop leaders, ensure workplace safety, and advance economic justice.

November 14, 2022

This Election Day, Job Quality Is on the Ballot

Voters will weigh in on three issues: minimum wages, collective bargaining rights, and involuntary prison labor.

November 4, 2022
Black Americans at election voting booth

Phoenix Fellows Collaborate on AI Writing Course

Phoenix Fellows from three institutions collaborated on a new writing course package with exposure to AI, cybersecurity, and drone technology.

October 31, 2022
Photo of Katie Belous, Kim Hanes, and Miguel Fernandez

Worker Owned and Worker Driven

While the rideshare apps have increased convenience, they’ve eroded job quality. See how the Drivers’ Cooperative is helping to end exploitative conditions.

October 21, 2022

Creating Employee-Owned Businesses That Provide Good Jobs and Succeed

Through employee ownership, The Industrial Commons is building a new Southern working class that erases the inequities of generational poverty.

October 21, 2022