News and Updates
Partners in Philadelphia Host After School Prog. for Recruiting Future Frontline Transit Workers
Posted June 2014
SEPTA, TWU Local 234, Keystone Development Partnership and school partners continued their cutting edge work on career pathways in Philadelphia as they kicked off a Careers in Public Transportation After School Program at Mastbaum Vocation and Technical High School. The programs builds on the partners’ innovative summer youth program, detailed in the Center’s “Pathways to Equity: Effective Transportation Career Partnerships” report.
Read more...Center Delivers Train-the-Trainer Course at BART
Posted June 2014
Last week, six current and future maintenance trainers at BART went through the Center developed Train-the-Trainer course developed as part of the Transit Elevator/Escalator Training Consortium. This program was co-facilitated by the Center’s Manager of Instructional Design Julie Deibel and BART’s Section Manager of Elevator/Escalator Power & Mechanical Maintenance George Younger.
Read more...Standards-Based Training: Cleveland, Sacramento Transit Systems Join The Center in APTA Webinar
Posted May 2014
More than 50 transit managers and trainers participated in APTA’s TLC-led webinar on Standards-Based Training last week. George Fields, Training Director for Greater Cleveland RTA gave an inspiring account of their work with the Center and ATU Local 268 in creating a new Rail Car Technician apprenticeship training program.
Read more...Signals Training Consortium Forges Ahead on Training Program
Posted May 2014
The Signals Training Consortium held its third full meeting last week, May 6-9, 2014, at Metro-North’s facility in White Plains, NY. The consortium brings together 20 public transportation agencies and their unions from across the country to create a standardized training program for signal maintainers.
Read more...UTA/ATU Career Pathway Partnership Exposes 3,200 Students—Possibility of being Transit Employees
Posted May 2014
For over a year the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 382 have been working together on outreach to make community members aware of opportunities for great careers in frontline work at UTA.
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