North and South Carolina members join for Solidarity Shoot

TD members from both North and South Carolina got together for a late summer clay shoot at DeWitt’s Sporting Clays in Ellerbe, N.C. About 57 people participated – including President Jeremy Ferguson and Alt. National Legislative Director Jared Cassity. North Carolina State Legislative Director Ron Ingerick organized the event and took part, as did SLD […]

SMART Leadership Conference concludes with stellar lineup of speakers, allies

The 2023 SMART Leadership Conference concluded Wednesday, Aug. 2. The joint session featured a wide variety of pro-labor speakers and allies from Congress, the Biden administration and beyond, demonstrating the strength of our union’s relationships as we work to seize this moment of opportunity. SMART Army award winners honored for practicing union values Each year, […]

“This is Our Time:” Second SMART Leadership Conference kicks off in Washington, D.C.

SMART leaders across sheet metal and the Transportation Division gathered in Washington, D.C., on July 31 to kick off the second annual SMART Leadership Conference. With a conference theme of “This is Our Time,” attendees convened to begin the hard work of making sure SMART seizes this moment of unprecedented opportunity across every craft and […]

SMART-TD Maryland members help rejuvenate Baltimore elementary school

SMART-TD members in Maryland mobilized on short notice to serve their community in April, joining a CSX and City Year Service Day spent rehabilitating and sprucing up Curtis Bay Elementary School near Baltimore. “CSX asked all their employees to be there, and this was really kind of last minute — they hadn’t done these in […]

House budget votes place Amtrak in the crosshairs

While Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) dollars are being allocated by the U.S. Department of Transportation to distribute to commuter and passenger rail projects as well as to transit agencies recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. House Appropriations Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and related agencies (THUD) subcommittee decided to pull $6.6 billion […]

Debt default threatens American workers: Take action today

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is threatening to let the United States default on its debt. $10 trillion of that debt is the result of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that his party championed. A default would be catastrophic for the economy, wiping out nearly 6 million jobs and $12 trillion of household wealth. This […]

NEMIC adds new director of implementation

Ohio native Cassandra Kline has been hired as NEMIC’s director of building construction technology, serving as a field representative to SMART locals all over the United States and Canada.

REEF Act to prevent rail jobless benefit cuts reintroduced

Under the Budget Control Act of 2011, and a subsequent sequestration order to implement mandated cuts, Railroad Retirement Board-administered unemployment and sickness insurance benefits were reduced by a set percentage that is subject to revision at the beginning of each fiscal year. In December 2020, in an effort to minimize the effects the COVID-19 pandemic […]

Washington SMART apprentice works to ensure indoor air quality in schools

As temperatures drop during cold and flu season, and Covid infections continue to pose public health challenges, it’s more important than ever to have proper ventilation in schools, offices and other buildings – and SMART sheet metal members are the highly skilled workers with the qualifications and expertise to perform that work. In Washington state, […]

Local 28 member showcases SMART members’ role in fight against climate change

SMART members across the United States and Canada are the frontline workers helping to build a sustainable future – from roofers installing green roofs to meet net zero goal in Canada, to transit workers helping reduce automobile emissions, to sheet metal workers constructing LEED-certified buildings across our two nations. In a recent interview with Climate […]