Category: Members Journal
Local 36 apprentices lobby for pro-union legislation on Women’s Lobby Day
Local 36 apprentices Keira Krentz and Lilly Gibson attended Women’s Lobby Day at the Missouri Capitol on Wednesday, March 6. Both apprentices are pictured with Missouri AFL-CIO President Jacob Hummel and State Senator Elaine Gannon, a union-friendly Republican.
DC, Va. SLBs hold 2024 reorganization meeting
The SMART-TD Washington, DC, and Virginia State Legislative Boards (SLBs) met in Williamsburg, Va., on March 4th and 5th for their 2024 reorganization meeting. Ronnie Hobbs and Jarad Jackson were reelected as the Virginia and DC state legislative directors, respectively.
Local 33 hosts Ventilation Verification/Indoor Air Quality Awareness course for contractors
Preparing for the future of work isn’t new to SMART Local 33 in Cleveland. During the recession, contractors learned how HVAC Fire Life Safety skills could keep workers on the job while providing valuable services to commercial buildings in the area. With the pandemic in the [...]
Local 480 drives unprecedented growth at Daikin in Southeastern Minnesota
SMART members across North America are living in extraordinary times. And nowhere are these extraordinary times, with all their challenges and opportunities, better exemplified than in Faribault, Minnesota, a town of approximately 25,000 people and the home of SMART Local 48 [...]
Local 16 members help recruit the next generation of sheet metal workers
For decades, high school guidance counselors, media outlets and policymakers pushed the idea that four-year college is the only path to prosperity for working families. And for decades, huge swaths of the American population have suffered as a result — while college is a gr [...]
Local 24 organizes newly arrived Ohioans to strengthen our union
In Central Ohio, megaprojects are creating previously unheard-of amounts of work for SMART Local 24 members — putting sheet metal workers on jobsites, such as Intel’s chip factories, and creating urgent staffing needs. That’s a good problem to have, and it’s helping Local 24 [...]
Region III Apprenticeship Contest showcases the next generation of journeyworkers
The Local 435 (Northern Fla.) JATC hosted the SMART Region III Apprenticeship Contest at its JATC on March 22–23, bringing together 27 contestants from nine local unions for a prestigious competition spanning two full days. The event showcased the talent and skills of appren [...]
Special Focus: FRA announces federal regulation requiring two-person freight crews nationwide
SMART members, allies submitted 13,000 comments in favor of the regulation On April 2, 2024, after a yearslong effort by SMART-TD members and leadership, United States Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Admini [...]