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Check out the racial, geographic and gender makeup of workforces at large Boston construction sites
By adamg on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 4:13pm
As promised by city councilors Mike Ross and Ayanna Pressley, a city Web site now lets you see how construction projects in the city match up with the city's construction job policy, which asks developers to ensure at least half their workers are Boston residents, 25% are people of color and 10% are women.
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great.
Now can we get the giant piles of snow removed from our damn roads?
FOCUS, people.
finally.....
So I said we needed to do this in 2005 when I ran for city council. In only took 6 years, pretty good.
Only 26% of the workers doing the jobs in Boston are from Boston. Yet we have high unemployment and aren't training people for these jobs?
Is it only obvious to me what the problems are?
People with jobs, skills and futures to do the work that is here to do (even in this tough economy) are probably less likely to get involved with more nefarious ways of making a living.
People can do more than one thing at a time
This project has been in the works for at least a couple months now; it's not like they suddenly demanded it all be done yesterday by the "essential" personnel who showed up at City Hall.
I'm also really doubting that either of the city councilors or the IT people at the BRA who put it together for them would be out driving backhoes after a storm in any case.
*facepalm*
The money all comes out of the same pot. The more money wasted on political grandstanding that has NOTHING to do with the city is money we can't spend on more important services which ARE.
Why, if only we had a state agency to handle this sort of thing. OH WAIT, WE DO. http://www.mass.gov/mcad/
Will match your face palm and raise you a Picard Maneuver
I thought MCAD only responded to specific complaints, rather than doing any sort of data collection on general issues.
Also, the state doesn't seem to much care where construction workers come from. If that's a concern to Boston, why shouldn't it collect the data?
Also, the developers were already required to submit it to the BRA anyway, so it's not like the city just hired an expensive IT contractor to build this new system. The only difference is that until today, you had to go down to City Hall during business hours and request it, on paper. Now you can look at it whenever you want. God forbid City Hall do something to increase transparency.
Adam's Picard Maneuver
Hi Adam: As I understand it, the MCAD, like the EEOC, can not only hear specific complaints of unfair treatment, but they can also hear complaints related to patterns of discrimination. However, it is the person making the complaint who is required to gather the evidence and prove the pattern. This, clearly, is extremely difficult and is too expensive, too time-consuming and too mind-bending for some poor individual trying to make her/his case.
Definitions?
I can't find the defintion of "minority" they're using.
How about doctors in Boston
How about doctors in Boston hospitals? Let's replace all these suburban doctors with city residents, minorities, etc!
I'm sure that would go over with Mr/Ms Latte when the kids get sick and need surgery.