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Sheet Metal Challenge Video Contest Now Open For Entries
Few people know what sheet metal workers do. The SMACNA-SMART Labor Management Partnership Trust is giving its members a chance to highlight their trade in creative, short videos—up to 90 seconds long—and earn a prize of up to $500 in the process. Videos can highlight labor-m [...]Driver panic, confusion common in path of trains
Your car is trapped between the crossing gates, and a train is speeding down the tracks, its horn blaring, its lights blazing in your direction. What do you do? Hit the gas pedal and crash through the gate, or ditch your car and start running, experts say. And don’t was [...]Union Pacific promotes Lance Fritz to CEO
Union Pacific’s board of directors today elected Lance M. Fritz president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. He also was elected to the company’s board of directors. Fritz had been president and chief operating officer since Feb. 6, 2014. Fritz, 5 [...]
SMOHIT Honors Professionals Aiming To Make the Industry Safe For Apprentices, Journeymen
Safety isn’t a second thought in the unionized sheet metal and air conditioning industry—it has to be a way of life, or death could be a consequence. SMOHIT works with professionals inside and outside the industry to create a safety culture that will benefit all apprentices a [...]
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 [...]