Good Companies/Good Jobs

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
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Climate Infrastructure Investments Should Also Boost Job Quality and Equity

Can we leverage this opportunity to ensure America’s workers will also be winners?

April 22, 2022
Worker on flooded street

Delivering Patient Care and Quality Jobs: Great Organizational Culture Drives Sunrise Treatment Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Sunrise Treatment Center provides high quality treatment for patients and a great place to work for employees.

June 29, 2021
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Workers’ Coop Stitches Strong Social Fabric: Opportunity Threads Innovates in Changing Their Region and Industry

How can employers’ policies and practices push up business value, boost job quality for workers, and advance broader social impacts?

November 17, 2020

A High Road Company’s Rapid Response to COVID-19: A Conversation with Marlin Steel President Drew Greenblatt

Combining good business with good jobs, Marlin Steel offers a model that other employers can aspire to emulate.

April 8, 2020
Photo of Drew Greenblatt (President, Marlin Steel) in his factory

Is America Missing 2.5 Million Women Workers?

A labor market unwelcoming to women leaves our economy deprived of talent and our society diminished.

April 17, 2019
Cutout silhouettes of missing women

The State of Our Economy – Extending Opportunity Requires Boosting Job Quality

Improving job quality is an essential ingredient to strengthening our union.

February 6, 2019
Economic charts and indicators superimposed on an American flag

Webinar: Working Metrics Tool Demo

A wide range of stakeholders recognize the value of supporting good jobs and good business decisions.

December 6, 2018

Working Metrics — Toward a More Equitable, Stable Economic System

A new tool can help businesses raise job quality and boost the bottom line.

October 26, 2018
Toy forklifts using wooden letter blocks to spell the words "good" and "job"

Shaping the Future of Work: California Top Court Decision

Moving labor costs off a business’s budget doesn’t make them disappear — it shifts them to the backs of workers, their families, & taxpayers.

June 14, 2018
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