Support this station KPLU 88.5 - NPR News and All that Jazz
News for Seattle and the Northwest
Last updated 9:07PM ET
February 14, 2012
KPLU Local News
KPLU Local News
Weatherization Funding Promises Jobs and More
by KPLU business and labor reporter Bellamy Pailthorp (2009-06-30)
West Seattle homeowner Carolyn Ostrom with union trainee Joseph Cortez, who is helping weatherize her 1919 home. Photo by Bellamy Pailthorp.
SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) - Thousands of high-quality "green" jobs and efficiency retrofits for hundreds of thousands of low-income homes. Those are some of the promises stemming from the more than 175 million federal stimulus dollars earmarked for weatherization work in Washington. And now a national union says they're well positioned to pick up the bulk of that work. KPLU business and labor reporter Bellamy Pailthorp has the story.


(To hear the whole story from KPLU's Bellamy Pailthorp, click "play" above.)

For more information:

Washington's Stimulus-funded Weatherization Bill
LIUNA's 'Builds America' Campaign




 © Copyright 2012, KPLU
Related Articles