Health experts are reporting that due to above-average winter temperatures across most of the country, tick populations are on the rise. Click on Your Track to Health to learn the basics about tick bites. For tips on how to prevent tick bites, click here to visit the National [...]
The Idaho Statesman reported that work is still underway, and will be for quite awhile, in clearing 25 BNSF freight cars that derailed last week on a stretch of U.S. 95, near Lake Cocolalla, Idaho. Officials from the Idaho Transportation Department told the press that it may [...]
Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed an anti-worker bill misguidedly labeled as the “Working Families Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1180). This harmful legislation would let employers give workers paid time off instead of being required to pay one and a half times [...]
May 4, 2017 WASHINGTON—In the strongest bi-partisan moves since President Trump’s election, Congress passed a spending agreement called an omnibus that is in stark contrast to President Trump’s 2018 budget – in which he proposed that transportation funds be slashed by t [...]
The SMART TD Ohio State Legislative Board’s Director Stuart Gardner and Assistant Director Ralph Leichliter went on The Union Edge: Labor’s Talk Radio to explain to listeners why Right-to-Work is Wrong not just for Ohioans, but for all working families. Click here [...]
SMART TD is proud to recognize that the Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Antonio, TX has gone from a Non-Union Hotel to a Union Hotel! We are happy to support our union brothers and sisters in Texas by holding our 2017 Western Regional Meeting at this amazing union hotel located along [...]
If signed into law, President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal would eliminate Amtrak’s long distance train service. The immediate fall out would be significant for all American rail workers resulting in the loss of 10,000 non-Northeast Corridor Amtrak jobs by the end of this yea [...]
The following obituary in remembrance of Herman Joseph Boruta II is re-posted from the Stegenga Funeral Chapel website: Herman “Herm” Joseph Boruta II, age 68, died Thursday, April 27, 2017. He died after a short illness with pancreatic cancer. He was a conductor [...]
Maureen “Moe” Johnson of SMART TD Local 1374 out of New Castle, Pa., has been diagnosed with lung cancer. If you live in the western Pa., or eastern Ohio area, please consider attending the benefit listed below. Johnson is a single mom and has lost her health insu [...]
Ohio State Senators Kenny Yuko (D) and Michael Skindell (D) are leading the effort to make Ohio railroads safer for crews and communities. The following three railroad legislative initiatives are scheduled for a first hearing Thursday, May 4 at 9:00 am at the Ohio Statehouse [...]
