Trainee Diamond Hamel learns how to read blueprints as she participates in trades readiness training at Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minnesota, in October 2023. Credit: ...
ROCHESTER — Diamond Harriel hadn’t considered a job in construction until last year. Her father works in the industry, but she never envisioned she’d be in the same field. “I already knew about (jobs ...
All construction workers in New York—union or nonunion, male or female, black or white—deserve the right to a fair wage for their hard work. That’s why all New York construction workers critically ...
The Massachusetts agency overseeing more than $2 billion a year of public construction projects failed to reach mandated targets for hiring women and minority workers in more than half of its projects ...
State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian spoke in 2013 to a group of young construction workers. (Sunny Strader) Oregon's road construction workforce is growing more diverse, a new study finds. But women ...
Travis Watson had hit his limit. “I’m sorry. I’m sick of this,” said Watson, the chairman of the Boston Employment Commission, as he recapped for his colleagues a local construction firm’s failure to ...
In 2023, Diamond Harriel was looking to make a career switch. She had a 10-month-old daughter and had recently gone back to school for a business administration degree, hoping it could help her earn ...