Category: Front Page
Spring 2024 SMART Members’ Journal is now online
The Spring 2024 SMART Members’ Journal is now online. Featuring messages from SMART International leadership, union and industry news, local union updates, service awards and much more, this edition of the journal puts a particular focus on our union’s recent policy victories [...]
SMART expands the I Got Your Back Campaign — “Speak Up, Speak Out”
In 2021, SMART launched the I Got Your Back Campaign, which celebrates the many great mentors and allies in our membership and reinforces member solidarity throughout our great union. Today, SMART announced the expansion of the I Got Your Back Campaign — “Speak Up, Speak Out. [...]
SMART members demonstrate strength, commit to a unionized future at NABTU Legislative Conference
Each year in April, SMART members travel to Washington, DC, to gather with fellow trade unionists for the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) Legislative Conference: a week for union members to forge alliances with pro-worker politicians, lobby for laws that benefit workers and strategize for a future that puts SMART to work.
SMART-TD, FRA announce federal regulation requiring two-person freight crews
Phone: (216) 228-9400 Fax: (216) 228-0411 Department Email: news_td@smart-union.org “I would like to start off by saying that this decision by President Biden’s administration is historic for SMART-TD members and all rail labor. Today’s ruling codifying the two-person freight [...]
Local 25 members complete Newark Liberty Airport redevelopment project
Local 25 sheet metal workers in northern New Jersey recently completed work on the brand-new Terminal A at Newark Liberty Airport. The huge project, funded by a $3 billion investment from the Port Authority of New Jersey/New York, included 33 airline gates and eight bridges, [...]
Rail workers join House roundtable to demand action on rail safety
SMART Rail, Mechanical and Engineering Department Director Peter Kennedy joined fellow rail workers and community witnesses to stand for rail safety during a roundtable hosted by Democratic members of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials on W [...]
Sheet metal leaders work to secure a unionized future at Partners in Progress 2024
The Partners in Progress 2024 conference brought sheet metal and signatory management leaders to Orlando, Florida, from February 27-28. With a conference theme of “The Future Is Now,” labor and management representatives came together to focus on seizing this moment of opport [...]
Following furloughs, rail workers demand immediate federal inspections of BNSF locomotives and rail cars
WASHINGTON, DC – The shop craft unions at Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway are urgently calling upon the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to initiate unannounced focus inspections on all locomotives and rail cars owned and leased by BNSF Railway, and immediate [...]