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National Apprenticeship Week
The Building Trades have scheduled events at local apprenticeship and training centers across the United States in order to increase the visibility and value given to Union apprenticeship education and training programs. Events will take place at locations featuring most of t [...]President At Workers’ Summit, Encourages Use of New Organizing Tech
At a White House worker summit earlier this month President Barack Obama urged participants and other worker advocates to “think creatively” about how they might use mobile apps and the Internet. “Technology actually can help,” Obama said, “in th [...]
Video: GP Sellers Introduces the New Union Label
Label it, Scan it, Report it. The new union label is here. Find out more at LabelItScanItReportIt.com Click the image below to view the video.
National negotiations update
Members of rail labor’s Coordinated Bargaining Group (CBG), composed of representatives from the SMART Transportation Division, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the American Train Dispatchers Association, the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers/SEIU [...]
No Railroad Retirement benefit increase in 2016
Railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, will not increase in January 2016 as there was no increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the third quarter of last year to the corresponding period of the current year. Also, because there is no cost-of-li [...]
Buffalo Success Turns Into Nationwide Campaign
Reprinted with permission from Tom Campbell, WNY Labor Today. Buffalo-Headquartered Sheet Metal Workers Local 71 is being credited and hailed with starting a successful organizing drive in Western New York that led to transportation crew members for North America’s largest r [...]
Ohio Senate introduces two-person crew bill
Ohio State Senators Joe Schiavoni (D – Dist. 33) and Kenny Yuko (D – Dist. 25) have introduced Senate Bill 229 – a bill calling for two-person crews on locomotives – in the state. The bill has bi-partisan support and has been co-sponsored by nine state [...]
Local 17 Union Hall Building Named After GP Emeritus Nigro
On Saturday Oct. 3, community leaders, politicians and union members gathered in Dorchester, Massachusetts to honor SMART General President Emeritus Joseph Nigro with the dedication of the Local 17 Union Hall building in his name. The plaque, placed on the walls at the entran [...]