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SMOHIT Prevent Unveiled
SMOHIT (the Sheet Metal Occupational Safety and Health Institute) has developed content for a new workshop called SMART PREVENT, designed to complement the Union’s Member Assistance Program (SMART MAP). PREVENT is combination of SMOHIT’s “Fit for Life” initiative and content [...]
Suicide Prevention Workshop Held for LU 28 Leaders, Instructors
Atop a list no one even wants to be part of, construction is the “top” industry for total number of suicides and the second-worst industry in suicide rates (percentage of workers). As such, it is imperative to shatter the mental health stigma and develop a caring [...]
Local 88’s Al Lopez Honored By NV Dems
Nevada Democrats honored SM Local 88 organizer Alfonso Lopez for his years of tireless political activism—all on top of his staff duties. In 2016, he helped Nevada stand out as one of the few states that refused to send anti-union candidates to an open Senate seat and to the [...]
General Chairs refute CSX ‘blame the worker’ claims
In a letter dated August 3, that was emailed to CSX CEO Hunter Harrison, SMART TD general chairpersons batted down Harrison’s claims that workers are at the root of service disruptions. General Chairpersons Steve Mavity (GO 049), John Whitaker (GO 851), Dale Barnett (GO [...]
After a forty year delay, SMART TD member completes 3,000 mile bicycle trek
BostonGlobe.com reported that John Sweeney, longtime Amtrak conductor and SMART TD Local 1462 member from Boston, Mass., successfully completed a 3,000 mile, coast-to-coast bicycle trek that he was suppose to embark on 41 years ago, and never did. Read the complete story here [...]
EEOC sues CSX for company-wide sex discrimination
Railroad subjected class of female workers to unlawful physical abilities testing, federal agency charges HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – CSX Transportation, Inc., a provider of rail-based transportation services with operations throughout the eastern half of the United States, vio [...]
CSX CEO Hunter Harrison’s ‘profit above all’ plan has customers jumping ship
RailwayAge.com reported that data released from a recent CSX customer survey shows that more than eighty percent of customer participants have experienced problems with CEO Hunter Harrison’s ‘Precision Railroading’ plan. Many CSX customers have already left [...]SMART TD refutes Hunter Harrison claim that CSX service disruptions fault of workers
Reuters posted on August 1, 2017, that in an email last week to his customers, CSX CEO Hunter Harrison addressed service delays and disruptions by placing blame squarely on his employees, stating that they have been “resistant to change.” John Risch, SMART TD nati [...]