Mission
California Transit Works! is a new California consortium of transit agencies, transit unions, and colleges focused on transit workforce development. Our mission is to educate, advocate, and advise transit agencies and their unions in building worker-centered training partnerships, as a key strategy in meeting industry demand for qualified workers to provide reliable and effective clean energy transit services for our communities
Activities
- We are a growing active network of transit unions, transit employers, and community colleges that address key workforce development issues facing the transit industry, their members, and their communities.
- We support individual labor/management transit training efforts through direct expert technical assistance provided by both CTW, and a technical assistance consortium funded by the California Workforce Development Board.We summarize lessons from successful labor/management transit training partnership work; and bring those lessons to CTW consortium members through regular meetings and networking (a Community of Practice).
- We conduct pilot projects selected by the Community of Practice members in key areas of mutual interest such as pre-hire programs; impact of changing technology on workers and the industry; etc.
- We have created a new mobile friendly website, catransitworks.org that will feature “how-to” videos, materials, and resources; and promote labor/management partnerships as a key transit workforce development strategy.