Comments on: A great opportunity to integrate the construction unions http://sfbayview.com/2008/a-great-opportunity-to-integrate-the-construction-unions/ Black liberation news and views Thu, 24 May 2012 07:13:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mary http://sfbayview.com/2008/a-great-opportunity-to-integrate-the-construction-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 mary Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:16:52 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1979#comment-1045 The NNPA is the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the umbrella group over some 200 Black newspapers around the country. "National" in names of associations formed during segregation often means Black - e.g. the National Medical Association's membership is Black doctors, who, until not too long ago, were excluded from the American Medical Association, nor could they practice in white hospitals. Mary Ratcliff, editor SF Bay View The NNPA is the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the umbrella group over some 200 Black newspapers around the country. “National” in names of associations formed during segregation often means Black – e.g. the National Medical Association’s membership is Black doctors, who, until not too long ago, were excluded from the American Medical Association, nor could they practice in white hospitals.

Mary Ratcliff, editor
SF Bay View

]]> By: Ann Garrison http://sfbayview.com/2008/a-great-opportunity-to-integrate-the-construction-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-1005 Ann Garrison Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:06:13 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1979#comment-1005 What's the NNPA? What’s the NNPA?

]]> By: Ted Brogan http://sfbayview.com/2008/a-great-opportunity-to-integrate-the-construction-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Ted Brogan Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:07:57 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1979#comment-740 Mr. Alford- Bravo. PLAs are bad public policy. Thanks for sharing the black community's viewpoint on PLAs and discrimination within the building trade unions. It is an untold story that needs to be considered when governments grant unions a monopoly in providing the workforce to build infrastructure and construction projects. Your piece reminds me of the failures of the D.C. Baseball Stadium PLA: http://www.alossfordcworkers.com/ and the recent stories about the lack of diversity within Philadelphia's Building Trade Unions related to the proposed PLA on the Philly Convention Center: http://www.greatexpectationsnow.com/content/why-unions-wont-share I hope that the Congressional Black Caucus, Congress and Mr. Obama listen to the NBCC's point of view on this issue. Mr. Alford-

Bravo. PLAs are bad public policy. Thanks for sharing the black community’s viewpoint on PLAs and discrimination within the building trade unions. It is an untold story that needs to be considered when governments grant unions a monopoly in providing the workforce to build infrastructure and construction projects.

Your piece reminds me of the failures of the D.C. Baseball Stadium PLA: http://www.alossfordcworkers.com/
and the recent stories about the lack of diversity within Philadelphia’s Building Trade Unions related to the proposed PLA on the Philly Convention Center: http://www.greatexpectationsnow.com/content/why-unions-wont-share

I hope that the Congressional Black Caucus, Congress and Mr. Obama listen to the NBCC’s point of view on this issue.

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