Cleveland's CBA policy suggests goals, but it lacks teeth
In February 2013, nine months before his second re-election, Mayor Frank Jackson announced a new vision for how the city of Cleveland would go about hiring for public projects.
Jackson's ideas of stabilization followed a handful of"aspirational goals." Of developer hires, at least 15 percent should be minorities, seven percent female, and 8 eight percent small businesses. As for city projects, 20 percent of the workforce should be Clevelanders. About a decade after Jackson set such standards, which aimed to"reframe the public discourse" as far as divvying up Cleveland's meatiest construction projects, especially those backed by taxpayer dollars, CBAs are still largely voluntary for the recipients of the public's largess. For it to have teeth, and to make an actual difference, means codifying an ordinance with requirements, not goals.
Cities and counties across the country have, in varying degrees, tried to enforce CBAs, with varying results.
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