Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Labor/Management Policy Steering Committee is considering a number of immediate needs for training to be sponsored by the Keystone Partnership including Print Reading, Plumbing, Hydraulics, Track Maintenance and Windows Operating System.
Statewide: Based on Keystone Partnership sponsored interviews with over 1,000 bus and rail mechanics from across the state in large and small properties, the top three transit maintenance skill needs are interpreting Logic Gates and Diagrams; troubleshooting and maintaining Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs); and troubleshooting and maintaining Multiplex, Allen Bradley or other electronic control systems.
Harrisburg: Thomas Mathews represented the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership at a meeting on February 20, 2004 to discuss the development of a Pennsylvania Network of Sector Partners. The meeting was conducted in the offices of Fred Dedrick, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board.
Philadelphia: A meeting is scheduled March 2, 2004 with the House Speaker John M. Perzel in his Philadelphia offices to provide information on the Keystone Partnership. Labor, management and administrative representatives from the Keystone Partnership will be in attendance.
Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry Stephen Schmerin will be among the guest speakers at the Press Conference scheduled for 11:00 AM on Friday, February 27, 2004 at the 31st Floor of the Regional Enterprise Towers at 4256 th Ave. in Pittsburgh announcing the involvement of the Port Authority and ATU Local #85 in the Keystone Partnership.
Altoona: General Manger Eric Wolf, a Keystone Partnership advocate, has been chosen to head up the National Advisory Panel for the Transportation Research Board's study entitled Transit Bus Mechanics: Building for Success.

For more information: email: info@keystonetransit.org

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