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LIUNA and Baltimore Church Groups Providing Workers with Job Training
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This is a cross-post by Kenneth Quinnell from Crooks & Liars.
In a great example of a proactive way to deal with unemployment, the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) partnered with Community Churches United for Baltimore Jobs to give job training in the construction trades to unemployed workers. In a sharp contrast to the developers in Baltimore who are receiving massive tax breaks, the faith-based coalition requested help from the labor union in helping get unemployed workers the skills they need to get back into the workforce.
From the press release about Thursday’s event:
“As a long-time Baltimore resident I am appalled that members of our communities, who are willing and able to work, are routinely left out of conversations with developers when it comes to local jobs,” said David Stokes, a local LIUNA trainer. “We have hundreds of workers who have reached out to us from throughout Baltimore who are willing to be trained so that they can help rebuild their own communities.”
Currently, Community Churches United for Baltimore Jobs is working to bring attention to EBDI to hear the community’s cry for local job opportunities. Community Churches United for Baltimore Jobs is calling on EBDI to implement a Community Workforce Agreement with the following provisions:
• Goal of 50 percent of Baltimore city residents with aggressive recruitment from the communities directly affected by the project.
• Goal for apprentices and new entry-level workers to be 20 percent of total workforce.
Community Churches United for Baltimore Jobs is a faith-based alliance comprised of congregations whose goal is to uplift the community by helping residents attain their full potential through local job training and spiritual guidance.
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I know a way to create a million jobs. Just try drilling for oil and gas.
What an idiot, Cussbreath does not even have the knowledge about oil and gas to see how dumb that statement is.
But my question is… train these people to do WHAT?
Techonology and shipping businesses to other much-poorer countries has been decimating the labor jobs in this country. What are they going to teach them? How to TYPE resumes when typewriters are no longer used and resumes are disregarded in favor of individually-filled-out pre-printed application fomrs? How to sweep and was floors when schools want their children students to do the job? Telemarketing when people have laws and technology to avoid bothersome telephone harrasment? Maybe they can teach them to be elevator operators and put them in a push-button automated elevator? They could be rock musicians even though rock-and-roll has died in favor of hip-hop and rap and symphony orchestras are shutting down all across our country! They could teach them to be semi-truck drivers among the three-and-a-half million other two-week-training-course drivers in our country!
Now, how many millions of jobs have been replaced not just by BUSINESS computers in our country, but how many of those millions of jobs have been replaced by HOME COMPUTERS AND CELL PHONES ??????
People need to WAKE UP and GROW UP and look at what is really going down in our world because of gras-roots human stupidity!!!!