Making Connections 2024 –Advancing Workforce Development through Positive and Powerful Workplace Partnerships

This session about effective labor-management partnerships was presented as part of TWC’s Making Connections 2024 transit workforce conference in November, 2024.

Session Description: Strong workforce development programs are most often built on an equally strong foundation of effective labor-management partnership, and, across all types of transit agencies, the ability for frontline workers to have a voice in workforce decisions. Join this session to hear from and engage with national and local leaders from management, labor, and government about how to establish and sustain these collaborative partnerships, facilitate frontline worker involvement, and the benefits these initiatives bring to individual agencies, the workforce, and the industry as a whole.

Moderator: 

• Darnice Marsh: Labor Management Partnership Coordinator – U.S. Department of Labor

Speakers:

• Sean Adgerson: Deputy Director and COO – Miami-Dade County Transportation & Public Works
• Patrick Brady: Moving Metro Co-Coordinator – Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 (WA)
• Joseph D’Elia: President – Transport Workers Union, Local 291 (FL)
• Debra Frazier: Moving Metro Co-Coordinator – King County Metro (WA)
• Jamaine “G” Gibson: Director of Apprenticeships and Workforce Development – Amalgamated Transit Union