Priority Hire. Credit toward eligibility for the priority-hiring list will not accrue when teaching Correspondence Study or Provisional Telecourses.
Priority Hire. The Priority Hire Program seeks to support dispatch of workers to achieve the obligations and aspirational goals set forth pursuant to Port of Seattle Resolution No. 3736 dated November 28, 2017, which directs development of a program which is designed to prioritize the recruitment and placement of economically disadvantaged local workers on Covered Projects. The Priority Hire Program is intended to help address construction workforce shortages, diversify the construction workforce, and improve the well-being of individuals who live in geographical areas of economic distress, while focusing on participation by Apprentices and Journey level construction workers who have been historically underrepresented in the construction industry, including minorities, women, and veterans for a specified share of total hours worked on covered projects. The purpose of Resolution No. 3736 is to provide good family wage jobs to qualified construction workers from Economically Distressed Areas of King County, or as designated by the Port, by increasing access to the Port’s Covered Projects for those workers. The Parties recognize that public agencies are working together as regional partners to better understand the workforce demand-supply gap for regional public infrastructure projects; to enhance access opportunities and to increase the diversity of pre-apprentices, apprentices and journey-level workers entering into the trades workforce; to support retention programs for current trades workers; and to improve performance data and systems of reporting for monitoring regional goals and initiatives.
Section 2. The Port Designee will set a requirement for each project that directs the Prime Contractor to utilize workers from economically distressed ZIP codes for a specified share of total hours worked on the project by apprentices and journey-level workers. It is agreed that classifications of work performed under the selected PLA projects will be subject to the following additions and stipulations:
(a) The Designee will set a requirement for this each project that directs the Prime Contractor to utilize workers from an Economically Distressed area (“Priority Workers”) for a specified share of total hours worked on the project by apprentices and journey-level workers. Workers that qualify towards those requirements shall be identified as “Priority Worker(s).” A Priority Worker is defined in Port of Seattle Resolution No. 3736 dated November 28, 2017, as an individual prioriti...
Priority Hire. Credit toward eligibility for the priority-hiring list will not accrue when teaching Self-Paced Courses, Seminar Courses, or Telecourses.
