Conductor honored for saving man on tracks

OLYMPIA, Wash. – It’s every train conductor’s worst nightmare. On a sunny morning in July last year, a Tacoma Rail train hauling 10 rail cars filled with cargo bound for the Mottman Industrial Park approached the tunnel in downtown Olympia at Cherry Street and Sev [...]

Previsich now President of Transportation Division

John Previsich has been elevated to the position of president of the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers following the retirement of Mike Futhey.Previsich becomes the second president of the SMART Trans [...]

Statement from Nigro on government shutdown

SMART General President Joseph Nigro has issued the following statement on the Oct. 1 shutdown of the federal government: “It has become frustrating to see that the U.S. House of Representatives has become so dysfunctional that it can no longer do its job and pass legis [...]

Previsich now president of Transportation Division

John Previsich has been elevated to the position of president of the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers following the retirement of Mike Futhey. Previsich becomes the second president of the SMART Tran [...]

Statement From GP Nigro On Tea Party Shutdown of U.S. Government

It has become frustrating to see that the U.S. House of Representatives has become so dysfunctional that it can no longer do its job and pass legislation to fund basic programs and services that it has already authorized itself to do so. This is why confidence In the U.S. Hou [...]

Previsich elevated to SMART TD president

John Previsich has been elevated to the office of president of the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers following the official retirement of former President Mike Futhey, effective Oct. 1. UTUIA John Pre [...]

After a 42-year career, God’s blessings be upon you

By Mike Futhey, SMART Transportation Division President –   After a rewarding career of working a combination of 42 years on the railroad and as a union representative, my wife, April, and I look forward to a productive post retirement in Memphis, Tenn. The career journey beg [...]

33 injured after CTA trains collide

More than 30 people were injured Sept. 30 morning after two trains running on the Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line tracks collided, CTA officials confirmed. The accident happened just before 8 a.m. at Harlem Avenue and Interstate 290 in Forest Park, a northwest suburb th [...]

Railroads seek extension for installing PTC

WASHINGTON – Spurred by a deadly train crash in Los Angeles, Congress in 2008 passed with great fanfare legislation requiring the nation’s railroads to install a sophisticated collision-avoidance system by the end of 2015. Five years later, an industry move to extend th [...]