At a time when educational and employment opportunities elude far too many young African-American men, Terence Mason Jr. seems to have it all figured out.
The 21-year-old Toledo, Ohio native is two years away from completing his apprenticeship as a trade certified journeyman sheet metal worker. Within the next few years he intends to become an inspector, then take more schooling to become an engineer.
On Saturday, Mason lent his support to a new advocacy movement supporting local project hire policies that will help create career-track construction jobs for the city’s most underutilized and disadvantaged workers.
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“There’s also a lot of underemployment in our community, where people don’t have adequate benefits and protections in their jobs. In our research we found that 70 percent of African-Americans are facing some sort of wage theft — meaning employers are not paying overtime and break time, or paying cash under the table. These are all violations of labor law.”…
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