News

Center Helps Kentucky Agency Register Transit Coach Operator Apprenticeship Program

Posted March 2017

From right to left:  Tia Brown - Program Manager, Sean Legacy - Trainer, Stephen Brown - Training Instructor, Larry Holland - Transit Coach Operator, Mathias Hamilton - ATU Local 1447 President. 

February 20th, Tia Brown, Program Manager participated in a joint apprenticeship committee meeting with labor and management representatives from the Transit Authority of River City (TARC). In February, TARC officially registered their transit coach operator apprenticeship program with the Kentucky Office of Apprenticeship. Their transit coach operator apprenticeship program is only the second in the U.S. to be registered with an apprenticeship office, after Valley Transit Authority in San Jose, CA.

TARC has been participating in the Center’s American Apprenticeship Initiative program through the Transit Coach Operator Apprenticeship Technical Committee since October 2015. This Committee is a joint labor/management committee that is devoted to reshaping the culture of transit in America. Their goal is the promotion and advancement of professional Coach Operators through the development and implementation of quality training and apprenticeship programs. The Center is providing technical assistance with the development and implementation of their transit coach operator apprenticeship program.

For more information regarding the development and implementation of apprenticeship programs at your location and/or the Center’s American Apprenticeship program, contact Tia Brown at tbrown@transportcenter.org.