Metro’s efforts to better connect to small businesses
As many of you know, Metro is a big agency with a not-so-tiny budget — $6.1 billion in the coming fiscal year. Like many other government agencies, Metro hires contractors for [continue reading]
Video: Young father with troubled past finds new life through construction career
We continue our construction careers program video series today with the story of Eric Barnes, a laborer for Skanska-Traylor-Shea, the contractor building Metro’s Purple Line Extension project. Eric had a troubled past, but a new [continue reading]
Video: Metro’s construction careers program helps single mom find job
Over the next few days we’ll be posting a series of videos featuring construction workers and small business owners whose lives have been positively impacted by working on Metro projects through the [continue reading]
Learn how to do business with Metro at these upcoming events
Come network and learn how to do business with Metro at these upcoming events: How to Do Business With Metro: Tuesday, April 14 at Metro HQ, One Gateway Plaza from 9:30 [continue reading]
Metro hosting Project Labor Agreement/Construction Careers Policy symposium Feb. 12
Metro’s Project Labor Agreement (PLA) and Construction Careers Policy (CCP) Symposium will host a symposium to explore the impact of the nation’s first Federal Transit Administration approved Project Labor Agreement/Construction Careers Policy with a targeted hiring goals on Thursday, Feb. 12. The symposium sessions will engage administrators, stakeholders, contractors, trade unions and [continue reading]