Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership
A Joint Project of Transit Unions and Transit Systems in Pennsylvania
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Quotes
from around the Commonwealth on the
Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership "We are excited about the Keystone program. We are concerned about the new technology demands, and we need long-term solutions to skill training." Eric
Wolf "We have a need to identify common interests between labor and management. I feel there is a good opportunity in Altoona for a joint labor-management training project." Dave
James "We need training in all advanced and current technologies. The union is willing to negotiate issues to facilitate training." James
Finn "It's imperative for our transit authority to work with our labor representatives to work out arrangements where our incumbent workers can get to learn the skills needed to adjust to the new technology coming down the pike." Mark
Mitchell "Our transit authority has a good working relationship with our local Lancaster Workforce Investment Board in setting up special bus runs for their clients to get to and from work for special shifts. We would also like to work with them and their colleagues at the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry in setting up training courses needed because of new technology for our incumbent workers here at the authority." Jim
Lutz "Our local union members are interested in learning about preventive maintenance and best practices in training from other transit authorities in the area. We're all in the same boat in regards to the need for training and so we should be able to learn from each other." Ed
Timmons "Smaller transit authorities may not currently have all the new transportation technologies available, but we know they are coming and we need to be ready with training programs for them." William
Simpson "Computers in buses, laptops, GPS, electronic fareboxes; you name it, whatever technology coming into the transit field, we need training for it. And by "we," I mean labor and management." John
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