RE: [WardFive] Fw: [ward5] Report: D.C. Stinks At Getting Residents Hired in Construction Jobs (Loose Lips)

I received the message last night; it came through loud and clear!    Let's continue the dialogue so that we eventually change the status quo!   Gigi, I appreciate your willingness to spread light into some dark places.
 
Theo Brown

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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 04:41:41 -0800
From: gigifor5c12@yahoo.com
Subject: [WardFive] Fw: [ward5] Report: D.C. Stinks At Getting Residents Hired in Construction Jobs (Loose Lips)
To: ward5@yahoogroups.com; wardfive@googlegroups.com

I sent the below last night around 10:16 pm.  Don't know why it didn't come through to the addressed listservs.

 

Albrette "Gigi" Ransom
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From: Gigi Ransom <gigifor5c12@yahoo.com>
To: "ward5@yahoogroups.com" <ward5@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: [ward5] Report: D.C. Stinks At Getting Residents Hired in Construction Jobs (Loose Lips)

Eric,

 

From my understanding of the law and when studies are performed, depending on whether they are commissioned or performed by a select group, business, etc, as long as they can validate their reported information, it can withstand any lawsuit.  Unions and businesses have a right to perform studies/reports. 

 

In my personal opinion, based on clear observations and information shared by DC residents with training or just seeking construction jobs removing debris, this report could be considered true.  If it wasn't, there would be no need for such a report or the continued effort to shape a "First Source " agreement that is binding. 

Apply the same rule to those contractors and sub-contractors that get away with hiring cheap "hands on learned" labor from the Home Depot parking lot and other places, many alleging to be DC residents for DC Govt contracts or projects that receive DC Govt funding.

 

Trying to infuse "FEAR", or "false education appearing as real" doesn't work on those who have their own consciousness. Don't scare easy because they know the truth, not because you say so or those who pay you.

 

At times, its hard to believe that you actually live in DC.  Never heard so much cloaked hatred in my life. The money must be spellbinding because with the many times that you try to defend these discriminatory actions of these businesses, how can you honestly say "hello" to a fellow Washingtonian trying to make a honest, fairly waged living with a straight face or sleep at night, or look at yourself in the mirror?  Makes me think you feel/think that DC residents are inferior, except yourself.

 

Albrette "Gigi" Ransom

From: Eric J. Jones <ejjones.threed@gmail.com>
To: ward5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ward5] Report: D.C. Stinks At Getting Residents Hired in Construction Jobs (Loose Lips)

 

KPW dont be so fast to trust that document. I cant speak in a great deal of details at this point but there are flat out lies in this report which will likely lead to legal responses from impacted parties.

On Dec 4, 2012 1:44 PM, "KPW" <WKPW3@aol.com> wrote:

 

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/looselips/2012/12/04/report-d-c-stinks-at-getting-residents-hired-in-construction-jobs/

Report: D.C. Stinks At Getting Residents Hired in Construction Jobs

Posted by Alan Suderman on Dec. 4, 2012 at 12:01 pm

Here's something you probably already knew: the District's construction boom isn't translating to jobs for District residents.

A new report, commissioned by the laborers' union, found that D.C. has the lowest percentage of residents working in the construction industry compared to Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore. Meanwhile, residents of D.C.'s suburbs are more likely to have construction jobs than suburbanites of any of the aforementioned Northeastern cities.

The District only has about 8,700 residents, or 2.9 percent of its population, working construction, compared to 7.3 percent of the area's suburbs, according to the nonprofit research group, Good Jobs First, that produced the report. The rate of construction-related jobs in the other cities ranges from 4 percent to 5.8 percent.

"The failure of area contractors to employ District residents is shocking," says Thomas Cafcas, the report's author.

Cafcas says the reasons contractors give for not hiring District residents—including their lack of education/training and habitual drug use—don't square with the higher construction numbers found in other cities or the fact that there's almost no educational requirement needed for bottom-rung construction jobs. He recommends the city strengthen its efforts to enforce the recently beefed-up First Source law, which requires contractors to hire District residents. Unions love First Source, while several contractors despise it, saying it creates an unfair caste system and forces them to hire subpar workers.

Photo by Darrow Montgomery

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