Endorsers of Our Vision

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3r Living

Alive Structures

Apollo Alliance, National

Apollo Alliance, New York City

Apollo Alliance, New York State

Artisan Baking Center, CWE/ CLC Training Center

Association for Energy Affordability, Inc.

Astoria Graphics, Inc.

Brooklyn Green Team

Brooklyn Workforce Innovations

Bronx Community College - Center for Sustainable Energy

Building Works Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program

Center for Employment Opportunities

Center for Law and Social Justice

Center for Working Families

City University of New York (CUNY)

Civil Service Technical Guild, DC 37, Local 375

Communications Workers of America (CWA), Local 1180

Community Environmental Center

Community Service Society

Community Voices Heard

Conservation Services Group

Consortium for Worker Education

The Cotocon Group

CUNY Institute for Urban Systems - Building Performance Lab

CUNY - The Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies

Cypress HIlls LDC

The Doe Fund Inc.

Dress for Success Worldwide

East River Development Alliance

Easter Seals

El Puente

Energy Liberty

Envirolution

Environmental Health Fund

EWVIDCO (East WIlliamsburg Valley Industrial Development Corp.)

Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies

Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc.

Fiscal Policy Institute

Fountain House

Full Spectrum NY

GENERGY Electric Services Co. (GESCO)

GFWC - DC Chapter

Goodwill Industries of Greater NY & NJ

Green Boroughs

Green City Force

Green Edge NYC

Green Harvest Technology Ventures

GreenWorks Community Development Corporation

The HOPE Program

IceStone, LLC

IMAN NYC Working Group

Industiral and Technology Assistance Corporation

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 237

International Center for the Disabled

International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 94

JobsFirst NYC

Labor Management Cooperative Trust, Local 46

Laborers International Union of North America, Local 10

Lawyers for Green Jobs

Local Development Corporation of West Bronx

Lower East Side Ecology Center

Lucita, Inc.

Make the Road By Walking

Manhattan Chamber of Commerce 

The Morningside Heights/West Harlem Sanitation Coalition

Mothers on the Move

National Employment Law Project

Natural Resources Defense Council

New York City Employment and Training Coalition

New York City Environmental Justice Alliance

New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health

New York Jobs With Justice

New York/ New Jersey Baykeeper

New York Restoration Project

New York Water Taxi

New York Industrial Retention Network

Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW)

Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation

NYC College of Technology (CUNY) - Business & Industry Training Center 

Partnership for New York City

Pinwheelstudiosinc

The Point Community Development Corporation

Pratt Center for Community Development

Private Concern

Project HIRE

Regional Plan Association

Reuse Alliance

SEIU 32BJ

Sierra Club NYC

Solar One

Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation

St. Nicholas NPC/ Williamsburg Workforce

SUNY Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center

Support and Training Result in Valuable Employees (STRIVE)

Sustainable Business Network NYC

Sustainable Flatbush

Sustainable South Bronx

Tensor Energy, Inc

UPROSE

Urban Agenda

Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice

Urban Green Council/USGBC New York

Waste to Wealth

Working Families Party

Elected Officials

The following elected officals have endorsed our vision statement.

New York City Council Members:

Helen Foster, District 16

James Gennaro, District 24

Letitia James, District 35

Brad Lander, District 39

Melissa Mark-Viverito, District 8

Rosie Mendez , District 2

Albert Vann, District 36

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Our Vision

We believe that New York City can grow an inclusive, multi-stakeholder green economy that...

• Employs a wide spectrum of workers with a range of skills in environmentally sustainable areas including, but not limited to energy efficiency, building retrofits, urban forestry, transportation, environmental remediation, and green product development and manufacturing
• Prioritizes environmental remediation and targeted outreach in NYC’s most vulnerable communities disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards in their homes and communities
• Develops long-term career tracks and respects the right to organize and provides relevant training opportunities for these workers
• Encourages the utilization of unionized workers in private and public sectors and provides relevant training opportunities for these workers
• Promotes business development and the growth of new industries, transitions existing industries and fosters sustainable opportunities for the business community, including small businesses, and an incumbent workforce
• Provides just, sustainable working conditions, and safe and healthy jobs that utilize the safest chemicals, materials and products throughout their life cycle based on green chemistry and engineering principles
• Empowers all New Yorkers to shape more sustainably just communities by pursuing fair and equal opportunities for populations typically facing barriers to employment including but not limited to people of color, low-income people, immigrants, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, lgbtq people, disconnected youth, women, veterans and the differently-abled.

...and we support taking the following steps to do so:

• Integrate multi-lingual training and multi-level recruitment strategies into the City’s green initiatives, RFPs and programs to coordinate workforce development with existing sustainability efforts
• Undertake innovative initiatives, such as local sourcing policy, the development of a clean-tech sector, advancing green chemistry principles to foster growth and development for new and existing businesses with high wage jobs for a more sustainable green sector with long-term career opportunities for all
• Incorporate green collar multi-lingual and multi-level training opportunities, careers and professions into Career and Technical Education schools, NYCDOE curricula, CUNY, labor-management training and apprenticeship programs, Workforce 1 Centers and other citywide workforce development initiatives to train the current public and private workforce, as well as the workforce of tomorrow and to transition incumbent workers to new occupations
• Include job standards in the City’s green initiatives and provide or enable quality control oversight on all green initiatives to ensure compliance with labor laws and sustainability mandates
• Support and expand community-based and grassroots green job training and transitional employment efforts to overcome persistent barriers to employment
• Enforce legal standards for occupational safety and health including requirements for training and hazard assessment and/or apply recognized best safe work practices and call for new legal standards when applicable.