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Center’s Efforts in Developing Natl Bus Apprenticeship Highlighted by Jobs to Move America Webinar

Posted November 2016

John Schiavone, the Center’s director of technical training, joined Stuart Bass, Keystone Development Partnership, and three other presenters for a Webinar sponsored by Jobs to Move America regarding an upcoming procurement of CNG and zero emissions buses for LA Metro.

Jobs to Move America is a national coalition dedicated to ensuring that public dollars spent on public transit systems create good jobs, cleaner equipment and more opportunity for low income people. Proposers to the LA Metro bus procurement must provide a Local Employment Plan (LEP) for creating new employment opportunities for local workers including those at bus manufacturing plants.

Mr. Schiavone discussed the Center’s joint labor-management project with the Department of Labor to develop a national bus apprenticeship for technicians, which can be applied to better train and advance the careers of plant workers as part of the LEP.