Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership
A Joint Project of Transit Unions and Transit Systems in Pennsylvania
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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has awarded a grant to the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership to address both the current shortage of skilled workers in transit properties across the state and the need for training to deal with the new technologies that are changing mass transit. Consistent with the Commonwealth's workforce development policies, the Keystone Career Ladder Partnership sees the current workforce in mass transit as the best resource for addressing the need for skilled workers. While the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership is beginning its work in Philadelphia with SEPTA and TWU Local 234, the partnership is a statewide effort that will reach out to Pittsburgh and to the smaller transit properties across the state. Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George is helping to lead the outreach effort. The Pennsylvania Public Transit Association (PPTA) and the state conference of the Amalgamated Transit Union are working to develop the project statewide. Keystone is one of the pilot transit career ladder projects supported by the Community Transportation Development Center. Under the leadership of its Chair, Warren George, the Community Transportation Development Center or Transport Center is developing similar career ladder partnerships in Houston, Miami and San Francisco.
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