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inform employers of affirm­
o· • aDd iDtroduce
to Idvocacy to in-
creue • of the re&f:Hlr-
� to them, c.muo
While the commission
ould be praised for makinl an
effort to increase recruitment of
minorities aDd
IW'I are the , yo
said.
"I don't � JOB CaD take
an employer aDd hit them ewer
the head ith education,
whether it be throup seminars
or atever, and make them
feel guilty enough to be com­
iitted enough to offer those 0p­
portuaities to minoritie and
women, - YOUDg said. -I just
don't think it I'b. - -
There�tohUequ�
minoricy and women workers is
the
and�
Joseph F. Y Jr., D-DetroiL
'They'll i dicate, Dumber
to hire • . •
but e can't find qualifi�d
o - YOUDg said. "We t to
handle women but they just
don't fit the mold of what
need in a person. 1 think those
are the traditio excuses that
have a1wa used. We've
got to get that.-
The seminars wiD empt to
OODomo
"We're • c:loscly with
dvocacy groups in Detroit," 0
Castillo .
"We to give employers
(opti ) to re they can
go to recruit minorities and
men into the rk force. We
want them to have working
partnerships with advocacy
groups,"
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the result of mental barriers and
prejudices inheritied through
the employer's environment,
.young coDtends. He believes
that more 1cgidatiOD needs to
be developed to hold employers
to commitments to hire
qualified individuals from these
groups.
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COMMISSION
Young said his proposal to
establish a Black affairs com­
mission in Michigan, currently
a aiting approval by the
o Senate, would sensitize all
groups to minority problems.
"We need to couple preven­
tion with existing committment
and opportunitiy and I think
that equates into people be­
coming productive citizens,"
Young said.
Yet Castillo feels the
program is a good first ste
before legal action is taken
against employers.
Companies volunteered for
the seminar after the Depart­
meat of Civil Rights confronted
them with statistics regarding
the number of minorities and
women in their workforce.
Many companies would rather
learn how to recruit more
minoritiy and women workers
than face legal action from the
department," Castillo said.
Over 100 companies from a
variety of industries wi�� be at­
tending the first seminar on
Feb. 13 in Southfield. The
names of the companies win be
kept confidential until the con­
ference, Castillo said.
While the seminars are cur­
rently only offered in the
Detroit tri-county area, they
will be expanded to the Lansing.
Jackson and Grand Rapids area
by 1991, Castillo said.
The program is a result of
Department of Civil Rights
study of 2,36S 0 tri-county com­
panies that submitted
workforce d ta to the Federal
o Employment Opportunity
Commission in 1988. Each com­
pany employed at least 150
peope.
The study revealed that 40
employer had no Black'
employees, and in 158 com­
panies, Black workers ac-.
counted for less than 2% of the
workforce. Twenty-three per­
cent of the companie
employed omen at less than
half the over II participation
rate in each county.
The majority of the employ­
ment compl ints the Civil
Rights Department receives
Rgarding employment pr c­
ticca are rei ed to fuing or
war • • • Beca 10
• dcM»ted to
,tDcIdeDlta. employers who line
failed to iDaease miDoritiy
WOIDeD em Ye beea
oqIected, Cutillo said.
. -Without complaint ,
�oqIected thoee employers
ho have de little or no
progre in providing equal
employmcDt opportuDitieI, - He
said. �ir�l pr .
have o1wiously h d an adverse
impact on minorities and
omen, It he said. 0
Housing ills
worsen slnce
state report
CODliD d from P 1
tion lead to a severe shortage of
safe and decent housing that is
affordable to lower-income
people."
The programs affected range
from public housing, which was
virtually ended, to block
development grants, which
were severely cut, the report
said.
The report included a num­
ber of possible ideas as to how
the state could help make up for
the loss of federal funds, and
urged the state make the hous­
ing problem a priority.
Three years later, ho �,
some legislators said they still
see housing as a major problem,
and feel that more needs to be
done.
Rep. Harrison, alleged the
o shortage oflow-income housing
is due to the Reagan, and now
Bush Administrations' polici
and said states need to get in­
volved. .
-I feel that the state should
take on a little more respon-·
. ility to make ousing a ail-
hie to people, - Harrison said.
But he said the state alone
should not bear all th respon­
sibility nd that the federal
government hould take ome
money from the defense budget
and apply it to housing.
Rep. Teola Hunter, D­
Detroit, Chairwoman of the
House Social Services Commi -
tee, said she sees 10 -income
housing an important i ue,
-I think it· going to be verY
important, because our home­
less population is really grow­
ing. "she said. ·1 think public
housing. affordable housing. .
going to be an issue with the
legisl ture in the coming year ••
Rep. Nelson Saunders, a
Detroit Democr t and chair­
man of the Ho Urb Af-
fairs Committee, said
Michigan's 10 -income h .
needs help.
-Certainly not enough is
being done, - Saunders 0 ide
"What we have been pushing for
. serious disc; . on aro d
the is ues rai ed in Charlie
Harrison's report.
-N one of the current
programs are really adeq e to
meet the need. We are co
mually • g ho . beca
are not doi
refurbish it.·
Saunders said he tho
situation i worse than l t.u
1987 when the report w
published d th he
k doseIy with HarrisOD OIl
IppI\ • the .