Months of community organizing and negotiations paid off Tuesday night May 15 as a community coalition led by Got Green reached agreement with Mayor Mike McGinn on next steps towards making the city’s hiring process for construction jobs more equitable for low income communities of color in our city.

The Construction Jobs Equity Coalition (CJEC), hosted the Mayor and several senior members of his staff at Got Green’s Columbia City office Tuesday in a community dialogue session. Coalition members delivered a concise and pointed message to the Mayor: Seattle’s struggling communities are in dire need of jobs and opportunities.

When unemployed workers on Got Green’s South Seattle Jobs Committee started demanding jobs on the Rainier Beach Community Center/Pool (RBCC) construction site last summer, they uncovered a much larger problem…