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Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, one of the SMART Transportation Division's predecessor unions, picket for paid sick time in the mid 20th-century.

GO-049 General Committee reaches tentative agreement with CSX (B&O) with paid sick days

April 6, 2023 Paid sick leave has been the goal of railroaders for decades. It is not only the quality-of-life issue that defines our industry, but also a validation of the dignity of our profession. As you can tell from the photograph attached to this article, we are not the first generat [...]

Tags CSX Transportation, GO-049, paid sick leave, tentative agreement

Washington members: Rail sick leave bill needs support!

April 5, 2023 Quality of life has been front of mind for railroad employees and SMART Transportation Division for years. It was the heart of the most contentious fights in last year’s national rail negotiations and continues to be the ultimate goal for everything your union is working to a [...]

Tags sick leave bill, Washington State Legislative Board, Washington State SLD Herb Krohn

Illinois State Legislative Director helps announce major rail project

March 31, 2023 DECATUR, Ill — SMART Transportation Division Illinois State Legislative Director Bob Guy was on hand March 30 as state Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a $200 million investment in about two dozen state projects to improve the flow of freight on rail and road. Among the 22 projec [...]

Tags Decatur, grade separation, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois State Legislative Director Bob Guy, Rebuild Illinois project

‘Best practices’ to be discussed at officers’ TD coalition meeting in May

March 29, 2023

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Tags Arin Johnson, Cleveland, meetings, TD Local 194

From the Ballast: ‘Getting railroaded’

March 28, 2023 “From the Ballast” is an open column for SMART Transportation Division rail members to state their perspective on issues related to the railroad industry. Members of the union are encouraged to submit content by emailing to news_TD@smart-union.org. Columns are published at th [...]

Tags From the Ballast, precision scheduled railroading, safety, solidarity, two-person crews

Union Pacific reaches labor agreement with largest union

March 25, 2023 Agreement with SMART-TD provides greater flexibility for railroad, improves service for customers and enhances quality of life for employees OMAHA, Neb., (March 25, 2023) — Union Pacific has reached a tentative crew consist agreement with General Committee 953 [...]

Tags crew consist, GCA-953, Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson, two-person crews, Union Pacific

TCU & Shop-Craft Coalition reaches tentative agreement with Amtrak

March 24, 2023 On Thursday, March 23 – after 15 months of negotiations – the TCU & Shop-Craft Coalition reached a tentative agreement with Amtrak to settle each organization’s respective Section 6 notices for this round of bargaining. The coalition is comprised of the SMART Mechanical D [...]

Tags Amtrak, contract negotiations, SMART MD, SMART Mechanical Division, tentative agreement

Norfolk Southern and SMART-TD statement on conductor redeployment bargaining

March 23, 2023 Atlanta, GA, and Independence, OH, (March 23, 2023) — Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE:NSC) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced Thursday that they are discontinuing formal nego [...]

Tags crew consist, Norfolk Southern Corp., SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson, two-person crews

From left, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy; David Comstock, chief of the Ohio Western Reserve Joint Fire District; SMART-TD Ohio State Legislative Director Clyde Whitaker; Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw and Association of American Railroads CEO Ian Jefferies appear March 22 before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in a hearing regarding rail safety.

Ohio SLD Whitaker, senators state case for Railway Safety Act before commerce committee

March 22, 2023 In the aftermath of February’s rail disaster in Ohio, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee held a key hearing March 22 on “Improving Rail Safety in Response to the East Palestine Derailment” to get to the bottom of what went wrong in the accident and to discuss the bipart [...]

Tags Association of American Railroads, East Palestine, National Transportation Safety Board, Norfolk Southern, Ohio State Legislative Director Clyde Whitaker, Railway Safety Act of 2023, S.B. 576

To better serve you, we have to know where you are!

March 22, 2023 Many members miss opportunities when their address and contact information on file is not current. To keep things up to date, this can be accomplished through the SMART mobile app, via the SMART Member Portal on the SMART website or the old-fashioned way — by just letting you [...]