Walsh and Labor Advocate Push for More Local Jobs for I-81 Project
2:37 Jobs to Move America wants the federal ban on local hiring lifted in order for projects to benefit local economies. Walsh created a program to train workers for the I-81 project that could run up against that ban. “What we’re trying to use Syracuse Builds for is the conduit for a pathways to apprenticeship program in partnership with local labor. But we also know there have historically been barriers in the trade particularly to communities of color,” he said. Walsh says lifting of the ban would help some of the thousands of jobs for the I-81 project to go to local people. Deka Dan...
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