Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has signed legislation that will make West Virginia the first state to require anyone who installs fire and smoke dampers to be licensed. In a state with little to no building code, the new law is a major step toward insuring only properly trained in [...]
A federal jury in Maine has awarded $400,000 in back pay and punitive damages to a former foreman of the Springfield Terminal Railway Co. who was fired after refusing orders to force an untrained worker to clean up a 2011 chemical spill in North Yarmouth. The Portland Press H [...]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt a blow to public sector unions Monday, ruling that thousands of home health care workers in Illinois cannot be required to pay fees that help cover the union’s costs of collective bargaining. In a 5-4 split along ideological li [...]
A member of Local 83 was tragically killed in an accident at the Globalfoundries jobsite in Malta, N.Y. There are approximately 350 Sheet Metal Workers on this jobsite from across the country. The Construction Manager, The M+W Group, has started a memorial fund for Mike Hauf& [...]
SMART Transportation Division Pennsylvania State Legislative Director Paul Pokrowka is asking members and their families in the state to contact their representatives in the state House of Representatives and ask for their support of House Bill 2345. The Pennsylvania Greenhou [...]
Provide video clips (High-Def preferably) of yourself saying as a GROUP the following tag lines: 1. We’re Looking Forward! (group of roughly 3-6 people) 2. We’re Moving Ahead! (group of roughly 4-8 people) 3. We Are SMART! (group of roughly 5-10+ people) Record ea [...]
Former “Survivor: Blood vs. Water” contestant Caleb Bankston died on Tuesday, June 24, following a railway accident, reports People magazine. The 26-year-old worked as a locomotive engineer/conductor at the Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham, and was working on [...]
WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest haulers of crude oil by rail on Tuesday appeared to abandon their insistence that information about such shipments could not be shared publicly for security reasons. Meanwhile, states, including some that had previously signed nondisclosure a [...]
It’s not every day that members of the GOP and the Democratic Party agree on anything. It’s especially rare when they agree to both stand behind union members in a strong show of support. That is what happened this past week when 10 members of New York’s Co [...]
U.S. railroad regulators have ordered BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway to hasten shipments of grain from a backlog that has frustrated farmers and people who run grain elevators. The Surface Transportation Board, in a decision late Friday, required the two railroads [...]
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