Pete Buttigieg calls for racial labor equity with infrastructure projects
“We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color that finally sees the project come to them but everyone in the hardhats on that project looking like, you know, doing — doing the good paying jobs don’t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood,” said Mr. Buttigieg.
Mr. Buttigieg, who faced criticism about his record on race issues as mayor of South Bend, Indiana during the 2020 Democratic primary, has been amping up his political policy portfolio on racial equity as President Biden’s transportation secretary. Advocacy organizations envisioned infrastructure projects including rapid bus transit lines to tie these communities to jobs, highways featuring green spaces, bike lanes and walkways to allow for safe crossings over the roadways, and partial removal of highways.
He urged the group of county officials to “really work with organized labor, to work with your contractors, to work with your community colleges, on building a workforce that reflects the community.”
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