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Custom-Bilt Workers Make a SMART Choice—a Union Choice

Custom-Bilt Metals is a manufacturer of metal roofing panels, gutters and downspouts. Unemployed Sheet Metal Local 105 member Jonathan Ruiz sought employment at Custom-Bilt Metals under Local 105’s salting program. Brother Ruiz realized that the workers were not satisfied wit [...]

SMART Wins Election at Pantex, Contract Negotiations Are Ongoing

Organizing in Amarillo, Texas, has been a success thanks to the hard work of Charles Thomas, Sheet Metal Local 49 President, Vice President of Metal Trades of Amarillo, Texas, and 30-year Local 49 member. Brother Thomas has been an employees of the Pantex Nuclear Facility in [...]

Smart Participates Globally, Acts Locally

Byggnads construction union, SMART, and other building trades representatives meet and discuss Skanska in Houston, TX. SMART has been participating in the global labor community in both the construction and manufacturing industries for the past 45 years and has developed stro [...]

Canada Supreme Court Reaffirms Workers’ Rights

In a 5-2 vote, the Canadian Supreme Court has reaffirmed that a worker’s right to strike is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  The court ruled “that the right to strike is an essential part of the collective bargaining process in Canada’s system of lab [...]

SMART Members Get 10 Percent Off Gold’s Gym Memberships

How are your New Year’s resolutions going so far? We’re here to offer a hand. We partnering with well-known health and exercise organizations to help you reach and maintain your goals (and save you some money in the process). Our first agreement is with participat [...]

SMART Member Organizes MichCanSka Race To Fight Diabetes

MichCanSka is an international snowmobiling charity ride from Michigan, through Canada and to Alaska that benefits the Diabetes Research Institute, a world leader in cure-focused diabetes research.  Labeled the “Iditarod of Snowmobiling,” the event is the brainchild of Bill B [...]

CSX lays off 52 management workers in Jacksonville

CSX Corp. laid off 52 management workers, all of them in Jacksonville, according to a company spokeswoman. The company finished the round of layoffs Monday, spokeswoman Melanie Cost said. “This is all related to the fact that we’re in a competitive industry,” she said. “The s [...]

Va. SLD: What degree of safety do you want?

The following letter to the editor of the The Roanoke Times by SMART Transportation Division Virginia State Legislative Director was published Jan. 26. Re: the Dec. 26 article “Railroads want only one person at helm of trains”: The article quotes Allan Zarembski “It’s a quest [...]

Middle class shrinks further as more fall out

The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century. In the late 1960s, more than half of the households in the United States were squarely in the mi [...]

Koch brothers budget $889M for 2016 elections

The political network overseen by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch plans to spend close to $900 million on the 2016 campaign, an unparalleled effort by coordinated outside groups to shape a presidential election that is already on track to be the mos [...]