Mayor Scott Renews Efforts To Find Stable Employment For Squeegee Workers, Launches 90-Day Community Engagement Plan

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) –Twenty-six-year-old Sieed has been a squeegee idiosyncratic successful Baltimore for 3 years but wants thing more.

“I request to get disconnected of the squeegee corner,” helium said Tuesday.

The begetter of 2 said helium uses the wealth from squeegeeing to bargain nutrient and wage bills for his family. “I person 2 beauteous kids that I effort to instrumentality attraction of,” helium said but added that this enactment of enactment doesn’t person things helium wants and needs similar a 401-k.

It’s wherefore Sieed and different squeegee workers are excited for a caller accidental announced Tuesday by Mayor Brandon Scott. A caller 90-day enactment program helping workers similar him by placing them successful dependable jobs.

“Providing them the enactment that they need,” said Mayor Scott.

Deputy Mayor, Faith Leach, said the program involves the city’s outreach squad engaging with young radical moving connected thoroughfare corners, “connecting them with resources and to employment.”

The program volition springiness 10 squeegee workers a occupation astatine Canopy by Hilton Hotel successful Baltimore’s Harbor Point.

They’ll person the accidental to effort their manus astatine being a bellhop oregon moving successful the hotel’s restaurant. But not everyone wants to enactment disconnected the streets.

“I tin marque much wealth being retired here,” said Carlos, different squeegee worker. Carlos said helium makes anyplace from $25-$50 per hour.

As a twenty-year-old, it’s capable for Carlos to enactment himself and his euphony career. “I’m not trying to enactment for cipher else,” helium added.

Squeegeeing has been a constituent of contention successful Baltimore. Last year, a viral video showed a squeegee idiosyncratic punching a operator and earlier this month, different video showed a squeegee idiosyncratic helping a pistillate from a car crash.

“They are resilient, they are passionate and they clasp truthful overmuch promise,” said Leech of the squeegee workers. “They are each the things we each emotion astir Baltimore.”

But metropolis officials judge this mode of enactment should travel to an end.

‘Youth squeegeeing is simply a disposable practice of breached systems,” added Leech astatine a property league Tuesday.

But Carlos says helium isn’t going anywhere. “We’re gonna support hustling, we’re not robbing nobody, it’s an honorable hustle truthful we’re gonna support doing this,” helium said.

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The Mayor’s caller program is acceptable to motorboat adjacent month.