SMART News, Episode 6
February 27, 2023
Welcome to the sixth episode of SMART News, your union’s monthly video/web show that highlights news impacting SMART industries, members and jobs across the United States and Canada. This episode features on the ground reporting from the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, more information on new benefits and incentives for sheet metal travelers, a dispatch from a town hall regarding school construction in Prince George’s County, Md., and much more.
Jump to a segment in this episode:
- New benefits and incentives aim to bring sheet metal travelers to megaprojects
- SMART-TD assists evacuees in East Palestine, Ohio
- SMART Women In Construction Week 2023 to benefit Soldiers’ Angels
- SMART-TD, rail labor stand with Sens. Sanders and Braun to demand paid sick leave
- GP Sellers discusses how Toolbox Talks strengthen our union
- SMART members, building trades workers rally for a PLA in PG County, Md.
- Remembering the labor activism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- SMART-TD office move projected to save members money
SMART News, Episode 5
January 23, 2023
Jump to a segment in this episode:
- SMART GP Joseph Sellers on new travel benefits for sheet metal members
- Infrastructure investments create jobs for SMART members
- Local 24 members bring MMA skills, experience to sheet metal
- Local 66 TAB apprentice talks about ongoing IAQ work in Washington
- Pressure from SMART TD members helps spark CSX attendance policy changes
- SMART locals spread holiday cheer, raise awareness of the sheet metal trade with BE4ALL toy drive
SMART News, Episode 4
December 21, 2022
Jump to a segment in this episode:
- SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson on the National Rail Contract
- SMART, ITI, sponsors celebrate the success of SMART Heroes
- Rail workers, elected officials rally against PSR and call for two-person crew rule
- BE4ALL Committee celebrates successes, maps out future work in Chicago
- Recruitment and Retention Council aims to strengthen SMART across industries
- An update on the latest Kingspan organizing efforts
- The year in review with SMART GP Sellers
SMART News, Episode 3
November 29, 2022
Jump to a segment in this episode:
- Overview of midterm elections
- 2022 Tradeswomen Build Nations conference
- VP Harris visits Local 17, announces coming work
- FRA extends comment period on proposed two-person crew rule
- Local 85 member (Ga.) discusses BE4ALL and her sheet metal career
- Local 124 members (Okla.) fabricate memorial statue honoring Native American vets
SMART News, Episode 2
October 31, 2022
Jump to a segment in this episode:
- Freight rail contract update
- GP Sellers on what’s at stake in the midterm election
- Local 28 business rep: Organizing new members is key to strengthening our bargaining power
- Federal legislation, new megaprojects create sheet metal jobs in Ohio
- Local 49 business manager brings SMART voices to the White House
- Local 73 organizer talks the importance of BE4ALL
- Local 16 members strike for better pay and fair treatment