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Keystone E-Newsletter, Issue 9, 2004
by Keystone Project Coordinator, Dr. Robert G. Garraty
March 24, 2004
Here is the weekly E-Newsletter with the news items on the Keystone Transit
Career Ladder Partnership initiative:
- Washington DC : The
Meeting of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) National Project
Panel entitled "Transit Bus Mechanics: Building for Success" was conducted
March 22 and 23, 2004 at the Transportation Research Board in Washington,
DC. The panel decided to utilize the job task information that has been
gathered by the Keystone Partnership program in Pennsylvania as the starting
point for ASE transit bus mechanic certification. Additionally, for the
first time and at the urging of the Keystone representatives on the panel,
needed training will be an integral aspect of any ASE test development.
Further information on this initiative will be forthcoming.
- Erie : On April 5, 2004, a group
of Keystone/PennTRAIN labor/management representatives will be touring
an Erie-based school that owns a training van. The purpose of the meeting
will be to consider the use of the van for the upcoming PennDOT funded
Circuit Rider Program which is intended to take maintenance training out
to the smaller properties.
- Philadelphia : Governor Rendell praised
the work of the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership in his address
to the delegates of the Statewide Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Convention last
Thursday.
- Pittsburgh : According to Keystone
Coordinators Bob Williams (Port Authority) and Kevin Barrett (ATU Local
#85) the subject matter expert interviews being utilized to identify additional
job tasks in Pittsburgh should be completed this week by the consulting
firm of EDSI.
- New Castle : This week training
is being conducted for the smaller properties at the New Castle Transit
Authority. HVAC Preventive Maintenance and HVAC Soldering/Brazing are the
two courses being offered.
- Lancaster : Yesterday the Governor
sponsored a "Manufacturing Summit" in Lancaster . PA Department of
Labor and Industry Deputy Secretary Sandi Vito asked that information be
provided conference participants on the Keystone Partnership with the intention
of showing a workforce training model that could possibly be duplicated
in the Manufacturing sector.
- Hershey : Please stop by the Keystone
booth at the PPTA Conference/EXPO in Hershey next week. Mark Catenacci
and John Buckner from SEPTA have developed a multi-media demonstration
on the training put together by SEPTA/TWU through the Keystone Program
that is being made available for smaller properties across the state.
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