Local News in Brief : Job Center Opens in South-Central L.A.
A new job recruitment center has opened in South-Central Los Angeles amid fanfare from city officials and community leaders, who say it will bring employment opportunities to an area where the unemployment rate among young black men is reportedly more than 40%.
The center is run by the United Auto Workers-Labor Employment and Training Corp., a nonprofit organization that operates at several sites in Southern California, including a job training facility in South Gate. The new recruitment office is intended to make the UAW program more accessible to South-Central Los Angeles residents, according to the organization’s chairman, Bruce Lee.
Although the center officially opened Monday, it has been operating for a month, and center officials say they have already placed 14 people in various companies that participate in on- and off-the-job training programs. Within the next year, they say, they hope to have placed 100 people in jobs through the office at 8836 S. Vermont Ave.
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