Tag: jobs

Formerly Incarcerated works build  “Safe Place” Freedom and Movement Center. Effort shows city how to include Blacks in skilled trades Jobs. Pictured above are staff...

The Oakland Private Industry Council (PIC) is hosting interviews for applicants who wish to start training and being working in the construction trades, 10...

By Community Leaders and GroupsTo Council Members, Mayor, City Staff, and Members of the Public:Three principles should prevail in upcoming discussions of public land:...

Mimi Rohr and Greg McConnell of the Oakland Jobs Foundation present a check for job training to Bishop Bob Jackson and Pastor Jerald Simpkins...

By Greg McConnell  |  The  McConnell  GroupOn Tuesday, April 24, I attended a City Council committee meeting where a major fight broke out over the...

City Councilmember Desley Brooks speaks Tuesday in front of City Hall about her proposal for city funding of pre-apprenticeship job training programs. She asked city officials...

Black Americans have twice as much unemployment as white workers.You can see one of the causes if you walk by any construction site and...

By Desley Brooks | District 6 CouncilwomanConstruction is booming in Oakland. From almost anywhere in the city you can see cranes, building materials stacked...

Gardeners’ Guild, Inc., a Bay Area leader in landscape contracting that is based at 2780 Goodrick Ave. in Richmond, has job openings in multiple...

Adopt a policy that benefits everyone, not just side agreement with Building Trades, say speakers The Post Salon Community Assembly last Sunday addressed the critical...