Sentences with phrase «minority workforce»

The company's minority workforce participation ranged from zero to 10 percent over that time, the records show.

The 25 percent minority workforce goal announced last year for Riverbend was included in two agreements signed when the state bought the land for the factory from the city.

Protesters from local community groups gathered outside the SolarCity construction site in South Buffalo to call for a return to the 25 percent minority workforce goal originally floated for the project.

Human rights groups have protested that his secret «workshop» actually depends on sub-standard work conditions and a captive ethnic minority workforce.

Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant is among the organizers of a rally scheduled for 10:30 a.m. outside the gates of the SolarCity plant at Riverbend calling for the project's 25 percent minority workforce goal to be reinstated.

Schuler said the 15 percent minority workforce goal is being met so far.

The results are slightly less depressing when you look at the change in the minority workforce, but still nothing to celebrate.

The minority workforce goal for the now - completed Buffalo schools construction program was 23 percent; for the ongoing development of the University at Buffalo Medical School, 20 percent.

A minority workforce training program on Syracuse's North Side is being expanded with the help of several local agencies.

Here it sounds like African Americans aren't even 40 percent of the minority workforce.»

As a result, African Americans made up less than half of the share of the minority workforce at SolarCity.

The project is nevertheless meeting its minority workforce goal of 15 percent, largely through the hiring of workers from other minority groups — in particular, Native Americans.

But Sam Capitano, business manager for Laborers Local 210, said a goal of 25 percent minority workforce would have been «challenging but not impossible.

Still, critics of the reduction in the minority workforce goal see it as evidence of the state's failure to prioritize diversity on publicly - funded projects.

Under the new law, construction vendors on Erie County projects in excess of $ 250,000 will maintain a NYS - registered and - regulated apprenticeship program that includes workforce development and diversification goals to ensure that contractors are working toward a minority workforce goal of 30 % minority and female participation.

But Mr. Seabrook is unabashed in his belief that his minority workforce is under - appreciated and understaffed, ill - equipped to handle prison riots, in particular.

Minority workforce goals, Apprenticeship requirements, 9 % DBE and Davis Bacon Wage rates are required.

Industry has made an effort to widen the hiring pool, and these efforts seem to have yielded a more diverse, albeit bottom - heavy, minority workforce.

The minority workforce is also expected to grow to 28 % by 2005.

Clemmons recommends creating a «task force, including myself and other like minded individuals, to figure out ways to make it attractive for business to start helping out with training a minority workforce and hiring them into all levels of an organization, not just the lower ranks.»