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HIRE Memorial1This forum post is dated 05/18/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Minnesota - Public Service Jobs
| HIRE Memorial1 ST. PAUL (September 29, 2009) A delegation of HIRE Minnesota leadership met with Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioner Tom Sorel, Tuesday, after leading a staged funeral procession to MnDOT headquarters to show its failure for 17 years to accountable to hiring goals for women and communities of color. HIRE (Healthcare, Infrastructure, and Renewable Energy) is a coalition of community groups, headed by Summit Academy OIC. Its goals are to secure additional investments in programs that prepare communities for the new economy. HIRE is also working for 25 percent minority participation on all MnDOT Twin Cities jobs and contracts, and other local government public works projects in the five county metro area. The best social service program in the world is a job, said Louis King, Summit Academy OIC. More than a hundred marchers in black armbands, yellow vests and white construction hard-hats, followed a team of four Native American drummers from Lao Family Community down University Avenue to the State Capitol and MnDOT plaza. Participants walked with mock-gravestones, marked with one of 17 years and the percentage of minority and women hiring for that years. They were staked down in front of MnDOT headquarters, and as the marchers sang civil rights songs, the delegation went inside to see MnDOT leaders. The Reverend Paul Slack, Pastor of New Creation Church in Brooklyn Park, returned with the group and was pleased to announce that they were promised a meeting X;b>...X;/b> |
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