Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.
Women Workers Outreach | EEOC Chairs in Flux
Rebecca Rainey: The Biden administration’s recent call for members of the construction trades to partner with community organizations and offer benefits like child care to attract more women and marginalized communities to the industry is old news to employer and labor groups. Those stakeholders have been working to expand diversity in the field for years, they say, and have been redoubling their efforts in recent months with more than $800 million in training dollars available under the bipartisan infrastructure law.
“We’re really focusing on child care right now,” Melissa Wells, head of diversity for the North America’s Building Trades Unions, said in an interview. She added that child care can be more expensive for workers in the trades because of the industry’s non-traditional hours.
Both industry and labor groups say that working with organizations that can offer assistance like child care or transportation, and reach women and workers of color in their neighborhoods, will be key to getting people traditionally left out of the building trades in the door.
Liliana Calderon, manager of health and safety programs for the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, said she wouldn’t have entered the trades if she hadn’t found the Chicago Women in the Trades’ Technical Opportunity Program, a pre-apprenticeship program.
“Organizations that help ordinary women or...
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