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Remembering MLK

SMART-TD shares with the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the dream that people should be judged not by the color of their skin, their nationality nor their religious beliefs, but by the content of their hearts. King’s brilliance, vision, leadership and ultimate personal sacri [...]

SMART Transportation Division announces members of Bus and Transit Assault Prevention and Safety committee

Independence, Ohio — The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division (SMART-TD) has announced the members who will participate in the Bus and Transit Assault Prevention and Safety (BTAPS) Committee. This committee, [...]

TD members overwhelmingly vote to authorize strike action against SEPTA

Phone: (216) 228-9400  Fax: (216) 228-0411   Email: news_td@smart-union.org  The results of a strike vote authorized in October by SMART Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson on the Southeastern Philadelphia Transportation Authority (SEPTA) were fin [...]

Transportation labor groups urge DOT and NHTSA to launch industry-wide investigation of driverless vehicles

The following letter was submitted by the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, on behalf of SMART, SMART Transportation Division and a number of other labor unions to the U.S. Department of Transportation and to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [...]

SMART-TD BNSF members ratify tentative agreement addressing quality-of-life issues

Phone: (216) 228-9400 Fax: (216) 228-0411 Department Email: news_td@smart-union.org INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (Nov. 3, 2023) — SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD) members working under the proposed agreement voted, with approximately two-thirds in favor, to ratify a tentative a [...]

Strike vote authorized at SEPTA

“Our General Chairperson for the SEPTA property, Ray Boyer, served Section 6 Notices on SEPTA well over a year ago. SEPTA management knows full well that SMART-TD’s members are the backbone of the greater Philadelphia area. Our members operate heavy rail, buses, light rail, a [...]