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Building up women for careers in construction

Bay Area Black women are unapologetically moving into construction, training with Mission Rock Academy and partners, to learn trade skills including running equipment like tower cranes, pile-drivers, forklifts, backhoes, boom trucks and Bobcat excavators.

SF Building Trades are election’s biggest loser

The Building Trades tried to kill 1,000 jobs proposed under the Road Repair Bond, Proposition B, because they'd be covered by the new local hire law, which the Plumbers, Electricians, and Sheet Metal Unions oppose.

An economic justice paradigm for Black San Francisco

Mayor Gavin Newsom claims the most important item on his agenda is the revitalization of Bayview Hunters Point. Illustrating his editorial is this picture of a Black woman laborer. She is likely to be the only Black worker on any Hunters Point construction if things do not change. I propose an anti-gentrification subsidy of affordable housing and jobs for all residents displaced or in danger of displacement.