We ask you to recognize the changing tides of the construction workforce, and provide more resources totrain, employ and protect New Yorkers of color in the construction industry, regardless of whether or not they are part of a union.
As legislators in Albany discuss a potential prevailing-wage expansion, their deliberations have failed to consider the effects it would have on New York’s medical infrastructure.
For decades, unions have erected barriers for minorities in New York seeking access to jobs in the construction trade.
La gran mayoría de las metas legislativas del presupuesto estatal para el 2019 fueron aprobadas por la legislatura de Nueva York, incluyendo la prohibición de bolsas de plástico, la introducción de precios de congestión y nuevos impuestos de mansión.
Almost all of the reported legislative goals of the 2019 New York State budget passed— a plastic bag ban, congestion pricing, and a mansion tax. However, noticeably missing from this year’s budget was a prevailing wage expansion.
CWP greeted attendees of Gov. Cuomo’s speech today with educational flyers highlighting negative impacts of any potential prevailing wage expansion on communities of color.
Construction Workforce Project Hosts inaugural OSHA 10 Class in Harlem, New York City.
As an advocacy group for New York’s non-union, open shop workforce, the Construction Workforce Project (CWP) is reminding New Yorkers how any prevailing wage will sabotage hard-earned employment and housing opportunities.
Troy’s unemployment rate remains higher than the national average, and many residents are not seeing access to great job opportunities. Rather than address the problem, the legislature is currently considering a prevailing wage expansion that has the potential to exacerbate the situation and further hurt the city’s working families.
A policy couldn’t be built on a shakier foundation.
