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Eddie Dillard Watchdog For Oakland Black Contractors, True Economic Development Agent Passes At 76I just got word that the great Eddie Dillard, the President at Oakland Black Board of Trade and Commerce, passed away at 76 years old. I’ve known Eddie since I was Economic Advisor to Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris, from 1993 to 1996, and beyond. Eddie had one focus: making sure black small business owners, particularly contractors, got work.Eddie was a true business match-maker before the Internet, and I can say that because I knew him before the Internet was created. If you were a resident in Oakland and good at iron-working, or any craft of the hand useful in the built environment, Eddie would help you find work. If you were getting the stiff-arm from white developers and lip-service from the City of Oakland, Eddie was a visitor to the Mayor’s Office so many times, you’d think he was planning to camp out there.Eddie was truly part of the lost economic development soul of Oakland. He had no problem pointing to economic injustice done to black contractors. Take how he pointed to the problem of Oakland Black workers not gaining opportunity.According to BlackTradesman.us, Eddie said the following:Bay Area building trades unions are expected to back the implementation of a ‘Project Labor Agreement (PLA) or what is also referred to as a ‘Community Workforce Agreement’ (CWA) that would require developers to hire only union labor and contractors for projects that are built on Oakland city-owned land and or any project that involves city funding.Local area black contractors and black tradesmen attending the first outreach meeting last Thursday in East Oakland were concerned that they would be excluded from job opportunities on future city projects in their own neighborhoods and surrounding areas, if a PLA was implemented without protections to black tradesmen and companies.Speaking at the first city held meeting, according to Post News, black contractor Eddie Dillard said, “A Project Labor Agreements benefits white contractors. 90% Black contractors are non-union.”Many bay area building trades unions, who dispatch workers to projects have been historically segregated, and majority white organizations, admitting almost no Black workers. And historically, these labor unions have been unwilling to release data on racial composition within its workforce.“We have been asking the unions for 10 years how many African American members they have, but they have refused” to release the data, said Dillard.Most of those locals “have zero Blacks in them,” Dillard said.Union training programs are not located in Oakland but in outlying areas, like Benicia and San Jose, he said. “We have been asking the unions for 10 years how many African American members they have, but they have refused” to release the data, Dillard said.In closing, this Oakland vlogger will miss Eddie. I did not realize how I felt about him, until I wrote a column that Oakland had forgotten how to do Economic Development. At the bottom of the post at ZennieReport.com was one comment. It was from Eddie Dillard. He wrote “Great article. You hit the head of the problem.”I fell out of my chair. The clarity of his words pointed to his recognition of a problem and the decades of work he did in an effort to solve it. His Black Contractors Directory was but one of many attempts to correct this problem of Blacks in contracting not getting work.I planned to have him on as a columnist whenever he wanted. But I just wanted to interview him. I stumbled over an old username and password I created for him that we never got around to putting to use in having him belt out his say. My heart is forever empty.
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