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SMART TD’s Risch and others tell Congress not to forget carbon-capture tech
SMART Transportation Division National Legislative Director John Risch, pictured, along with Bob Perciasepe, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, and D. Michael Langford, national president of the Utility Workers Union of America, in an op-ed piece publis [...]
Secretary Acosta Visits Local 100 Training Center
U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta last week toured the Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union 100’s Apprenticeship Training Center in Suitland, Maryland. Earlier in the week, SMART’s General President Joseph Sellers, Jr., participated in a meeting of the President’s Task For [...]
Partnership Between Contractor and Union Grows Market Share
Thomas Company got its start in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., in 1920 in the years following World War I and less than a decade before the Great Depression. Despite that beginning, the economic collapse in 2008 and subsequent fallout in Atlantic City left the then 94-year-old co [...]
Read the SMART TD Special Edition on the 2017 National Rail Agreement
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DOT final rule: Workplace drug and alcohol testing procedures
On Nov. 13, 2017, the Department of Transportation (DOT) published a final rule that, among other items, expands DOT’s current drug testing panel to include certain semi-synthetic opioids (i.e., hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone). Testing for methylened [...]
NATIONAL CONTRACT UPDATE: Ballots are on their way to members
Members of SMART TD eligible to vote on the tentative National Rail Agreement will be receiving packets in the coming days, triggering the 21-day balloting period. Balloting packets left a production facility in Michigan on Friday, which caps off a process that began Oct. 6 w [...]NATIONAL RAIL AGREEMENT: Update from Coordinated Bargaining Group
Coordinated Bargaining Group Update To All Members For immediate release: November 10, 2017 As previously announced on October 6, 2017, the six Rail Unions comprising the Coordinated Bargaining Group (CBG) have reached a Tentative National Agreement with the Nation’s Freight [...]
Congressional leaders seek investigation into safety of long trains
After derailments, blocked crossings and other complications, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure have asked for the federal Government Accountability Office to study the effects of longer freight trains. In the let [...]