Call Tues 1/26 – Collaboration for Green Jobs Creation in Energy Efficiency
Next week, Green For All will host our first Community of Practice Learning Call of 2010. Please join us to learn about how an innovative partnership in Seattle among community groups, labor, and workforce trainers is creating the demand for good, green jobs, and ensuring pathways to those jobs.
Students from the Seattle Vocational Institute, a partner in the Seattle collaboration which will be featured on this call.
Next week, Green For All will host our first Community of Practice Learning Call of 2010.
Please join us to learn about how an innovative
partnership in Seattle among community groups, labor, and workforce
trainers is creating the demand for good, green jobs, and ensuring
pathways to those jobs.
Collaboration for Green Jobs Creation in Energy Efficiency
A Community of Practice Learning Call
Tuesday, January 26
11am Pacific/ 2pm Eastern
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On the call, we'll hear from SustainableWorks and its partners in Seattle about:
- The "whole-neighborhood" approach to marketing energy retrofits through community organizing, and how it achieves economies of scale;
- How direct-entry slots were negotiated for disadvantaged populations to enter apprenticeships with participating unions;
- The role of pre-apprenticeship programs in the preparation of workers;
- The role of organized labor in creating joint training and retraining programs, a skilled workforce, and family-wage jobs.
The SustainableWorks model demonstrates how diverse actors can work together to grow the local green economy, create good jobs, and create pathways to those jobs through energy retrofit programs.
