SMART Support for Wreaths Across America

This past Saturday was the 25th Wreaths across America day, where 44,000 volunteers placed 245,000 wreaths at gravesites and memorials in Arlington Cemetery.  This is also coordinated and carried out with wreath-laying ceremonies at 1,100 additional locations in all 50 states [...]

New Member Of SMART GEC

As a second generation Sheet Metal Worker, Jim Paquette started in the trade working as an Apprentice shortly after his high school graduation in 1978. Completing a four year apprenticeship in 1982, he over the years has had the opportunity to work in most trade areas from sh [...]

SMART Mechanical: Mediation Invoked In Negotiations

On December 6, 2016, the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) terminated negotiations with the SMART Mechanical-BMWED Bargaining Coalition and invoked mediation.  Within its request for mediation services to the National Mediation Board (NMB), the NCCC alleged that [...]

Michigan House Attacks Workers In the Dead of Night

Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives passed a pair of anti-union bills this week that make it harder for workers and unions to picket and easier for employers to hire workers to permanently replace striking employees. One bill would increase fines against pick [...]