Organized Labor

I was appointed some months ago to the Workforce Investment Board of San Francisco, which is charged with overseeing how some government workforce training and development funds are allocated. The Board recently established a “green sector” committee. I asked to sit on it and was accepted. We met for the first time in mid-December.

We discussed retrofit of buildings for greater energy efficiency. One of the committee members said that we needed to “break down silos” separating tasks in green building retrofits, that we needed to cross-train a new class of “green” worker.