by gotgreenseattle | Jan 24, 2015 | Featured, Green Jobs, Uncategorized
[satellite auto=on] On Tuesday the Seattle City Council unanimously voted (9-0) to adopt the Priority Hire Ordinance (CB 118282) following nearly two years of organizing and advocacy by our South Seattle Jobs Committee. The new law requires City construction...
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by gotgreenseattle | Dec 9, 2014 | Green Jobs, Uncategorized
We are pleased to announce that this week Priority Hire legislation was introduced in Seattle City Council. Today communities of color, labor unions and unemployed youth packed the Housing Affordability, Human Services and Economic Resiliency Committee meeting at...
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by gotgreenseattle | Nov 26, 2014 | Featured Homepage Video, Green Jobs, Uncategorized
Join Got Green’s South Seattle Jobs Committee on Thursday, December 4th at 9:00 AM as we pack City Council Chambers for the introduction (for real this time folks) of the Priority Hire/Targeted Local Hire Ordinance – Please wear GREEN. As all those...
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by gotgreenseattle | Oct 15, 2014 | Featured, Green Jobs, Uncategorized
On September 18th, in front of a packed room of dozens of unemployed workers and community leaders, Council member Sally Clark read Mayor Murray’s Targeted Local Hire policy (or “Priority Hire”) to the Committee on Housing Affordability, Human Services and Economic...
by gotgreenseattle | Sep 19, 2014 | Featured Homepage Video, Green Jobs, Uncategorized
[satellite gallery=3 auto=on] Got Green and our Targeted Local Hire Coalition partners packed City Hall on September 18th for the first reading of the Targeted Local Hire Ordinance [renamed “Priority Hire]. Rainier Beach Moving Forward President Gregory Davis...
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by gotgreenseattle | Jul 29, 2014 | Green Jobs, Uncategorized
“Two months after the stakeholder process concluded, we are still waiting for the recommendations on Targeted Hiring to be released,” said Columbia Legal Services attorney Andra Kranzler, “We entered into the process last October in good faith and coalesced with the...
