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Category: Spring 2022
White House launches Clean Air in Buildings Challenge
In March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House launched its Clean Air in Buildings Challenge to improve indoor air quality in buildings. This is a component of the National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan. The challenge is a call to action and a set of bes [...]
Building the future together
A stable and successful future in the union sheet metal industry is built off labor and management working together towards a common goal. That idea represented the theme of the 2022 SMART-SMACNA Partners In Progress Conference, held in Las Vegas, Nev. on March 1–2.
SMACNA & SMART collaborate to help disadvantaged students
The chosen charity for the 2022 Partners in Progress Conference was Project 150, an organization created out of the community’s desire to help homeless high school students. At the core of Project 150’s mission is the goal of providing support and services to this group of di [...]
Changes to compensation levels subject to railroad retirement taxes
The amounts of compensation subject to Railroad Retirement Tier I and Tier II payroll taxes will increase in 2022, while the tax rates on employers and employees will stay the same. In addition, unemployment insurance contribution rates paid by railroad employers will include [...]
Ohio leader joins SMART Women’s Committee
Sharon Walker is from Georgetown, Ohio. She was hired by Dualite, Inc. in 1985 and joined Sheet Metal Workers Local 183 that same year. As a member of Local 183 she served on the executive board from 2005–2008, the year Local 183 merged with Local 24 — covering 49 counties in [...]
SMART Army honors fallen at Wreaths Across America events
SMART Army members across the United States held their annual event in honor of fallen service members by joining thousands across the country to lay wreaths at the final resting place of service members at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as at over 2,500 sites across th [...]
Member spotlight: Samara Sampson
Samara Sampson is an apprentice at Local 285 in Toronto, Ont. who has been in the trade for five years. The SMART Women’s Committee sat down with Samara to learn more about her and the work she does. You can visit www.SMART-Women.org to read her story and the stories of her f [...]
SMART member, family members awarded 2021 Union Plus Scholarships
WINNERS HONORED FOR ACHIEVEMENT AND UNION VALUES Washington, D.C. – Union Plus recently awarded $250,000 in scholarships to 199 students representing 37 unions, including eight winners representing SMART. The SMART winners are: Noah Berning of Monroeville, Indiana Berning, wh [...]