NEW BEDFORD More than 500 high-paying union jobs are among the thousands of positions coming to New Bedford along with the first industrial-scale offshore wind facility in the United States.
That s a guarantee given in an agreement between Vineyard Wind and the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council that was signed before a group of leaders and policymakers at the edge of the city s harbor on Friday.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, and Congressmen Bill Keating and Jake Auchincloss spoke on the occasion, along with Mayor Jon Mitchell and state, local, union and business officials.