When it comes to life and death situations, a few words can make all the difference. In Garfield Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, an ordinance passed in June calls for the inspection of fire and smoke dampers in commercial buildings every four years by technicians and contract [...]
Unlike his predecessor, who ran a Los Angeles bus company, Metra’s new interim executive director is a veteran “railroad guy” who actually knows how to drive a train. Donald Orseno broke into the railroad business collecting tickets, helping set up trains an [...]
The Sportsman Channel and the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA) are teaming up again to honor and recognize the contributions of Americans workers and sportsmen and women during the Labor Day Brotherhood Outdoors Marathon Salute to American Workers & Celebration of America [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a proposed rule aimed at curbing lung cancer, silicosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidney disease in America’s workers. The proposal seeks to lower worker exposure to [...]
This Labor Day, SMART General President Joseph Nigro will be present for the Omaha, Neb., Labor Day parade and other festivities. The SMART Transportation Division, led by Transportation Division Nebraska State Legislative Director Bob Borgeson, will also host other events at [...]
Members of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers using airline travel throughout the United States may have noticed a commercial touting the efforts of their labor organization. The video is appearing on monitors at the gates of al [...]
Beginning September 3, 2013, a longtime friend of this Union, talk radio host and author Bill Press will be moving The Bill Press Show to Free Speech TV. The show joins a lineup of several leading progressive voices like Thom Hartmann, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, Openlin [...]
Seeing a fiddle being constructed of wood is rare enough but those visiting this Nova Scotia boardwalk had a chance to see something even rarer — fiddles being made of copper and brass. The life-sized instruments were being made by sheet metal apprentices from across Canada w [...]
In last month’s SMART Members’ Journal, I discussed the importance of transparency in our Union. Concern about transparency cuts across a wide spectrum of topics, including foreign affairs, the environment, information gathering, corporate actions, product safety, union oper [...]
(Via Mark Gruenberg, Press Associates News Service) Corporate ineptitude on a big U.S. Navy shipbuilding contract in Mobile, Ala., is looming over the latest organizing drive among Austal shipyard workers there, a drive run by the AFL-CIO’s Metal Trades Department. As a [...]
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