Category: TD Leadership Messages
Our SMART TD brothers and sisters in the Carolinas need your help!
Dear members of SMART Transportation Division: Hurricane Florence and its resulting floods have left behind substantial destruction in North and South Carolina, leading to the loss of life and millions, if not billions, of dollars in damage to property in the Mid-Atlantic reg [...]
Transportation Division leaders in attendance at TTD executives’ meeting
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Unions file petition against FRA over cross-border crews
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Sept. 5, 2018) – The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the International Association of Sheet Metal Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Transportation Division (SMART TD) have filed a joint petition challenging actions of the Federa [...]
TD Hollywood, Fla., Regional Meeting, Day 3: Previsich talks contract, cross-border crews at final session
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — SMART Transportation Division President John Previsich foresees a very different scenario when the next round of national rail negotiations starts in 2019, he told the audience at the closing session of the TD Regional Meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 8. [...]
Guidelines set for distribution of campaign literature
The SMART Transportation Division elections set for this autumn have generated questions concerning the distribution of campaign material. The following information addresses questions posed by those considering running for office who wish to obtain membership lists for use i [...]
TD Hollywood, Fla. Regional Meeting, Day 3: Risch encouraged by Missouri labor victory, close race in Ohio
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The results of Tuesday’s elections, while not the absolute best-case scenario for labor, indicated that voters might be ready to end the one-party majority in the federal government in three months’ time, said SMART Transportation Division National Leg [...]
TD Hollywood, Fla., Regional Meeting, Day 2: General Counsel Brodar talks about Janus’ blatant attack on unions
https://youtu.be/VfiURJRJgWc?t=1s HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — SMART Transportation Division General Counsel Kevin Brodar minced no words Tuesday, Aug. 7, when describing the 5-4 Janus v. AFSCME decision written by United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that was released [...]
TD Hollywood, Fla. Regional Meeting, Day 1: Previsich says U.S. labor movement at critical juncture
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Transportation Division President John Previsich looked to the recent past to point the way to the future on Monday, Aug. 6, at a critical point in United States labor history. In opening remarks to the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Ra [...]