In this month’s video address from SMART General President Joseph Sellers, he looks at the recent passage of the American Rescue Plan.
The plan does more than provide direct cash relief through payments to working Americans and resources for COVID-19 vaccination efforts. This critical legislation also provides long-sought help for multiemployer pension plans, puts Amtrak members back to work, boosts transit funding, provides COBRA assistance to jobless workers and funds a round of mitigation efforts to help get America’s schoolchildren back in the classroom through funds for air system monitoring and new HVAC retrofit work that will create sheet metal jobs.
Related News
- Union organizes holiday cheer throughout the nation
- After Spending Four Decades Representing Workers, Brodar Prepares for A New Chapter
- WATCH: Railroaders help railroaders at CSX
- GP Coleman’s 2024 holiday message
- Local #823 member killed in on-duty collision
- “Three Pack” attacks: SMART councils meet to fortify union in California
- The Safety Of Our BNSF Brothers And Sisters Is Not For Sale!
- Tragic Collision in Pecos, Texas Claims Two Lives
- SMART-TD union announces the passage of the Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act (REEF)
- SMART-TD member elected to lead Kansas worker group