Good Jobs/Green Jobs: Report on The 3rd Annual Conference Washington, DC May 4-5, 2010

May 19, 2010
By Chicagotalks
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4pm-6pm [Open To The Public]
Good Jobs/Green Jobs
Your [Unofficial] State of the Union

And Report BackOn The 3rd Annual Conference
Washington, DC May 4-5, 2010
A Roundtable Moderated by Naomi Davis 

How fares the marriage in Chicago between conservation and labor?  Join us in lively look
at the workers, employers, unions, and other beneficiaries of this historic collaboration. 
Learn from the perspectives of successful blacks-in-green. Unpack current legislation and
recently published jobs reports.  Explore the growth plans of green manufacturing in our region. 
Understand old and new relationships between labor and our public schools.  Consider equity
solutions offered by new approaches.  And learn a little history along the way!  

Roundtablers IncludeState Rep. Will Burns/New 4th Ward Alderman; Jack Darin/Sierra
Club; Tom Conway, Blue/Green Alliance; Vicky Cooper/Wilbur Wright College; Patrick Brown/OAI; 
Mike Neal/Small Contractors Network; Chris Williams/IBEW Local 134; Erica Swinney Stiles/Chicago
Manufacturing Renaissance Council; Bill Gerstein/Lyn Hughes/A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter 
Museum; Terry Keleher/Applied Research Center; John Plunkett/Harborquest, Inc; Jimmy Akintonde/
Ujamaa Construction.

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