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SMART expands the I Got Your Back Campaign — “Speak Up, Speak Out”

May 6, 2024 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. [...]

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Recent grad shares “I Got Your Back” story

August 6, 2022 A Local 16 member holds a piece of metal dedicated to Carrie Barber. Chelsey Bus recently graduated from her apprenticeship at Local 16 in Portland, Oregon. During her five years of training, she experienced much of the same adversity that other women in the trades face; alth [...]

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SMART: I Got Your Back

February 16, 2022 Michael Wilson is a new SM Local 206 (San Diego, Calif.) member working at the new San Marcos Medical Center in San Marcos, Calif. He recently shared how much he is enjoying his new career and learning every day from his journeyperson, Troy Lewis, who has been a union sheet m [...]

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2021 BA Conference Featured Launch of “I Got Your Back” Campaign

October 28, 2021 Speakers and panels also focused on the importance of mentorship, moving a pro-labor agenda under the Biden administration, rail and transit safety, lessons learned from local SMART leaders and safe buildings post-COVID SMART conducted a virtual business agents’ conference in [...]

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