Vineyard Wind signs labor agreement for offshore wind project; 500 union jobs guaranteed Anastasia E. Lennon Standard-Times
NEW BEDFORD — Vineyard Wind and a regional union organization signed a project labor agreement along the city's waterfront Friday, guaranteeing at least 500 union jobs for the project's construction and installation off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
Lars T. Pedersen, CEO of Vineyard Wind, and David Araujo, president of the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council, signed the agreement at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal (which will serve as the project's staging and deployment base) in the company of federal, state and local officials.
According to Vineyard Wind, the jobs will go to area residents who will be employed on both land and sea for construction of the 800-megawatt project 15 miles off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The workers will come from 20 local union affiliates of the regional building trades council.
The terms of the agreement will ensure a majority of the workforce will be from local communities, specifically Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, and Dukes counties. It also sets hiring targets for women and people of color, according to the company and council.
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Surrounded by federal and state officials, David Araujo, left, president of the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council, and Lars T. Pedersen, CEO of Vineyard Wind, sign the project labor agreement in New Bedford, July 16, 2021. "There's been this false choice, this uneasy tension at best and conflict at worst, between organized labor and the environmental community, and the push for renewable energy," said Massachusetts Building Trades Council President Frank Callahan.
"It has always been presented that in order to convert to a renewable energy economy, we have to sacrifice good union jobs," he said, referencing jobs for coal, gas and oil. "With this project, we're showing that that's been a false choice ... We can do both, we can have both and we're going to have both here off the coast of Massachusetts with Vineyard Wind."
Lisa Lemieux, president of the Southeastern Massachusetts Central Labor Council, said the project labor agreement brings good wages, education and training that they look forward to building on.
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Yes. It was a temporary position and I felt like the project was something Noone else wanted to do so they called in a temporary person. I was given very little direction and to this day I could not tell you what the goal of the project was. I honestly do not know. It was busy work with no clear objective. Very strange. I got paid for three weeks and quit.
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