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San Francisco Transit Career Ladder
Partnership
Rapidly
changing transit technologies, related skills shortages and job vacancies
pose critical challenges to public transportation systems across the
country and in San Francisco in particular. The San Francisco
Transit Career Ladder Partnership resolves these skills shortages
by means of a collaborative approach to training for incumbent workers
to move up industry career ladders targeted to areas of skills shortage.
The
goal of these programs is to strengthen promotional opportunities
for incumbent Muni employees, fill chronic vacancies, prepare incumbent
workers for jobs that will require new technological and human relations
skills, and permit Muni to more effectively meet new service delivery
guidelines.
The
Partnership serves as a cutting edge model of training development
in new technologies. Ultimately, the Partnership will seek to develop
economies of scale by including other regional systems and their unions,
including Golden Gate Transit Authority, Valley Transit Authority,
the County Connection, and the Los Angeles Rapid Transit District.
We are also benefiting from connections and exchange with similar
programs currently under development in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York
and Florida, with the facilitation of the DOT-supported Community
Transit Development Center. Where there are successful training programs
in other jurisdictions for specific classifications of employees,
these experiences are being modeled to develop programs for Muni.
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