SMART News

SMART News, March 2024

March 27, 2024

SMART News is your union’s monthly video playlist that highlights news impacting SMART industries, members and jobs across the United States and Canada. This month’s episode features videos on Local 19’s successful effort to expand prevailing wage laws in Delaware; SMART-TD Local 202’s use of various communications tools to forge solidarity and win high-profile victories in Colorado; a cross-industry tradeswomen group founded by Local 285 (Toronto) sister Samara Sampson; and Local 105 Business Rep. Tim Hinson’s well-deserved honor from the City of El Monte.

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SMART News, February 2024

February 21, 2024

Welcome to the February 2024 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 month’s episode features videos on how SM Local 206 helped win a citywide project labor agreement in San Diego; bus and transit workers’ fight against violence on public transformation through the SMART Bus and Transit Assault Prevention and Safety committee; Local 105 apprentice Charles Cashaw’s life-changing decision to join our union; and the importance of recognizing and celebrating Black History Month

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SMART News, January 2024

January 26, 2024

Welcome to the January 2024 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 month’s episode features videos on a new business manager training aimed at strengthening member representation; trailblazing sisters at Local 56 on Cape Breton Island; forward-thinking action by SMART local unions in the Pacific Northwest to recruit and retain working moms; and the positive impact of SMART-TD’s Regional Training Seminars.

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SMART News, December 2023

December 18, 2023

Welcome to the December 2023 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 month’s episode features videos on Tradeswomen Build Nations 2023, organizing success in Georgia, a Local 28 apprentice’s quick action to save her foreman, and the fight against transit assaults in New Jersey.

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SMART News, November 2023

November 21, 2023

Welcome to the November 2023 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 coverage of how a Ford megaproject in Kentucky is driving massive organizing and growth; SMART-TD Colorado’s progress on train length legislation; freight rail yardmasters sounding the alarm on task overload and safety; and more.

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SMART News, Oct. 2023

October 11, 2023

Welcome to the October 2023 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 coverage of our union’s ongoing work with the Biden administration, highlighted by visits to local unions by Secretary Pete Buttigieg and President Biden; SMART-TD’s work to help furloughed Union Pacific workers preserve their rail careers; an interview with a SMART-TD leader on the SAG-AFTRA strike and the importance of solidarity; and much more.

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SMART News, Sept. 2023

September 18, 2023

Welcome to the September 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 reporting on the 2023 SMART Leadership Conference; a successful rank-and-file organizing campaign that saw workers at the third-largest employer in Ketchikan, Alaska join SMART Local 23; the steps SMART-TD is taking to secure bus and transit operator safety, starting with one operator’s call to action at the Leadership Conference; and much more.

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SMART News, Episode 11

July 27, 2023

Welcome to the 11th 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 coverage of the National Transportation Surface Board’s hearing in East Palestine, Ohio; ongoing construction on the new home of the LA Clippers; SMART-TD’s efforts to protect bus and transit operators; an on-site visit to the Atlanta Heavy Metal Summer Experience, a career exploration camp for young people interested in sheet metal; a strike authorization rote at a tourist railroad in Alaska; and much more.

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SMART News, Episode 10

July 6, 2023

Welcome to the 10th 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 an interview with Local 19 member Elena Farina on the Biden administration; GP Coleman’s visit to Ford’s Blue Oval City megaproject in Tennessee; coverage of SMART-TD’s historic agreements, including paid sick leave; infrastructure funding creating good, union jobs in Boston; and another two-person crew victory in Minnesota.

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SMART News, Episode 9

May 26, 2023

Welcome to the ninth 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 coverage of Kansas railroaders’ innovative fight to win two-person crew law in their state; a groundbreaking new labor standards ordinance in Berkeley, California; a report on the terrifying dangers posed by blocked crossings and long trains; strong labor standards tied to public funding for megaprojects; and more!

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SMART News, Episode 8

May 2, 2023

Welcome to the eighth 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 videos on organized labor’s success repealing so-called right-to-work in Michigan; SMART Heroes reaching the 500th graduate milestone; victories against wage theft in Virginia and Washington; SMART-TD’s rail safety efforts in the U.S. Senate; SMART members’ retirement security; and much more!

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SMART News, Episode 7

March 29, 2023

Welcome to the seventh 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 an interview with General President Joseph Sellers on his retirement and career with SMART, a conversation with incoming General President Michael Coleman, an update on rail safety legislative efforts following the East Palestine disaster, and much more.

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