Hi Tradeswomen and Allies,
UMass Boston broke ground in April for the first building in $700 million worth of work. They are essentially tearing down the entire campus and rebuilding it over the next ten years. The university and the state have made a commitment to meeting the hiring goals of the Boston Jobs Ordinance, which is 10% women, 25% people of color and 50% residents.
The entire project is under a Project Labor Agreement, and under that PLA, they have created an Access and Opportunity Committee to help the community get access to these jobs. The committee is having a public meeting Wednesday evening at UMass.
This is an opportunity to show them that there are tradeswomen in Boston ready, able and willing to do this work, and to advocate for actually meeting (or even exceeding!) the goal of 10% women, which has almost never happened. Below are the details.
We hope you can join us - spread the word!
Wednesday, May 18
6 - 8 pm
Meeting of the Access & Opportunity Committee
Ryan Lounge
McCormick Building
UMass Boston
Parking: UMass will provide parking passes for those who attend this meeting.
A map of the campus can be found at http://uc.umb.edu/moreinfo/general/map/
If you have trouble reading the map, park in any parking lot, come up onto the campus, and ask around for the McCormick Building. It is marked as the McCormick Building.
The Access and Opportunity Committee was created under the PLA for this $700 million project and includes members from the Division of Capitol Asset Management (the state agency who owns this job), the UMass Building Authority, UMass Administration & Finance, labor unions and Boston city government people.
The PLA covers replacing many of the structures on campus. The first building is the $155 million Integrated Science Center. Walsh Brothers is the Construction Manager.
Some details about this, the first of many buildings, can be found at
