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 [...]
On December 18, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration announced regulations that will implement President Biden’s executive order requiring project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects costing $35 million or more. The executive order is expected to create [...]
On Tuesday, January 9, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final rule to help workers and employers better understand how to analyze who is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This rule, which went into effect Ma [...]
On Thursday, January 18, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) and its new “All in it to win it” PR campaign were spotlighted in an article from Progressive Railroading. In it, UP’s CEO Jim Vena and his team of executives did their best to paint a happy picture of a thriving compan [...]
SMART’s Education Department has long offered training for newly elected local union business representatives and agents. But during unrelated efforts to better train union leadership, retired SMART General Vice President Tim Carter recently explained, “It occurred to us: The [...]
The San Diego City Council unanimously approved a seven-year citywide project labor agreement (PLA) that will apply to every city project that costs more than $5 million in the first two years and $1 million projects for the following years, rewarding a long effort by SM Loca [...]