DC Employment Stimulus Bill Introduced

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

"We're tryin' to get a project labor agreement for everything being built with DC money to try to get some of the DC residents to work," Elevator Constructors (IUEC) Local 10 Business Manager Jim Lowery told Workers Independent News (WIN). "There's large unemployment in Washington," added Lowery. The local employment stimulus bill was introduced in the D.C. City Council Tuesday (Trades Urge Support For DC Employment Act, Union City 2/2/2010). The DC Employment Act would require government-assisted projects to hire a substantial number of DC residents. It's backed by the construction trade unions and could pass as soon as April. Click here for Cunningham's full radio report, part of a new WIN/Union City collaborative reporting effort. - Doug Cunningham, WIN