Green Collar Jobs report
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A professor at SF State University (a leading national expert on
green-collar jobs) just put out a report showing how the green ecnomy
really can provide great jobs for those who need them in Berkely.
Here's a bit of a letter below highlighting bits of the report:
Green businesses need workers, offer training, and pay well. Of the Berkeley green businesses surveyed by Professor Pinderhughes:
* 86 percent hire workers without previous direct experience or training for green-collar jobs.
* 94 percent provide on-the-job training for workers in entry level positions.
* 90 percent pay the full cost of insuring their workers.
* 73 percent of businesses stated that there was a shortage of qualified green-collar workers for their sector, with the greatest needs in energy, green building, mechanics and bike repair.
* The average hourly wage for green-collar work in Berkeley is $15.80 plus benefits. This is $4.00 higher an hour than Berkeley's current minimum "living wage," which is the highest in the nation.
Workers with barriers to employment want green-collar jobs. Analysis of men and women in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco with barriers to employment revealed that:
* 89 percent wanted to learn more about green-collar jobs.
* 61 percent expressed interest in being contacted in the future so they could receive training to work in a green-collar job.
Prof. Pinderhughes summarizes the report:
Poverty, unemployment and racial inequality are significant problems in the United States, and there is an urgent need for a new source of living wage jobs for low income residents with barriers to employment. Where can these jobs come from? This research project shows that an important part of the answer is the deliberate cultivation of "green-collar" jobs.
To learn more about Professor Pinderhughes and her research, you can check out her web page at: http://bss.sfsu.edu/raquelrp/ <https://mail.middlebury.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2%26c=lI6m%252BPi7BWXZb3WXwLWi4lykc%252F82wIcD>
Thank you for your continued support as we work to make the green-collar jobs vision a reality.
Sincerely,
Ian Kim
Director, Green-Collar Jobs Campaign
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Green businesses need workers, offer training, and pay well. Of the Berkeley green businesses surveyed by Professor Pinderhughes:
* 86 percent hire workers without previous direct experience or training for green-collar jobs.
* 94 percent provide on-the-job training for workers in entry level positions.
* 90 percent pay the full cost of insuring their workers.
* 73 percent of businesses stated that there was a shortage of qualified green-collar workers for their sector, with the greatest needs in energy, green building, mechanics and bike repair.
* The average hourly wage for green-collar work in Berkeley is $15.80 plus benefits. This is $4.00 higher an hour than Berkeley's current minimum "living wage," which is the highest in the nation.
Workers with barriers to employment want green-collar jobs. Analysis of men and women in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco with barriers to employment revealed that:
* 89 percent wanted to learn more about green-collar jobs.
* 61 percent expressed interest in being contacted in the future so they could receive training to work in a green-collar job.
Prof. Pinderhughes summarizes the report:
Poverty, unemployment and racial inequality are significant problems in the United States, and there is an urgent need for a new source of living wage jobs for low income residents with barriers to employment. Where can these jobs come from? This research project shows that an important part of the answer is the deliberate cultivation of "green-collar" jobs.
To learn more about Professor Pinderhughes and her research, you can check out her web page at: http://bss.sfsu.edu/raquelrp/ <https://mail.middlebury.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2%26c=lI6m%252BPi7BWXZb3WXwLWi4lykc%252F82wIcD>
Thank you for your continued support as we work to make the green-collar jobs vision a reality.
Sincerely,
Ian Kim
Director, Green-Collar Jobs Campaign
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
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