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SMART-TD conducts first Bus/Transit Day on the Hill

August 27, 2024 Our transit safety committee and TD legislative leaders took to the U.S. Capitol to share the increasing risks bus and transit operators face every day.

Tags Alternate National Legislative Director Jared Cassity, BTAPS, Bus and Transit Assault Prevention and Safety Committee, Bus Department Vice President Alvy Hughes, Bus Department Vice President James Sandoval, Christine Ivey, Federal Transit Administration, Members Journal, National Legislative Director Greg Hynes, Summer 2024

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear meets with SMART members, pledges continued collaboration

August 27, 2024 Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear met with attendees at the SMART Great Lakes and Southeastern Joint Council Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in early May, outlining the wins union workers in Kentucky have achieved in recent years. SMART members in Kentucky mobilized in both 201 [...]

Tags Andy Beshear, Kentucky, Local 110, Members Journal, Summer 2024

Fighting so-called “right to work” with education, organizing

August 27, 2024 The SMART Education Department held its new “Right to Work and Member Retention” class in Atlanta, Ga., during the week of April 8th. The three-day class introduced topics such as the evolution of the open-shop movement and so-called right to work, right-to-work messaging, th [...]

Tags Education Department, Members Journal, Right to Work, Summer 2024

GOP Gov. Youngkin vetoes Virginia two-person crew bill

August 27, 2024 In March, mere weeks before the Federal Railroad Administration announced its federal two-person crew regulation, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin decided he was against public safety, common sense and protecting Virginia railroad workers’ jobs and pensions: He vetoed a bill that [...]

Tags Members Journal, rail safety, Ronnie Hobbs, Summer 2024, two-person crews, Virginia

Senior White House adviser experiences union expertise at Local 312’s JATC

August 27, 2024 Tom Perez, a senior White House adviser and director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, spent March 22, 2024 with Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson, highlighting local initiatives funded through the American Rescue Plan Act — including a county pre-appr [...]

Tags American Rescue Plan, Apprenticeship, Local 312, Members Journal, Summer 2024, Tom Perez, Utah

SMART members demonstrate strength, commit to a unionized future at NABTU Legislative Conference

August 27, 2024 Each year in April, SMART members travel to Washington, DC, to gather with fellow trade unionists for the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) Legislative Conference: a week for union members to forge alliances with pro-worker politicians, lobby for laws that benefit workers and strategize for a future that puts SMART to work.

Tags election, Members Journal, NABTU, NABTU Legislative Conference, Summer 2024

SMART expands the I Got Your Back Campaign — “Speak Up, Speak Out”

August 27, 2024 At the jobsite, senior members of the crew often tell us how important it is to speak up if we see an unsafe act. We all want to return home in the same condition we arrived. But when we fail to look out for one another while performing our work, incidents happen, and these c [...]

Tags be4all, I got your back, Members Journal, mentor, mentorship, solidarity, Summer 2024

Local 67 apprentice named U.S. DOL Apprentice Trailblazer

August 27, 2024 As part of the United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) Youth Apprenticeship Week in May, SMART Local 67’s Amber Oliver was named an Apprentice Trailblazer — one of just two DOL Apprentice Trailblazers in Texas, and the only sheet metal Apprentice Trailblazer in the country. [...]

Tags apprentice, Apprenticeship, Local 67, Members Journal, Summer 2024, SWGCRC

Local 25 members complete Newark Liberty Airport redevelopment project

August 27, 2024 Local 25 sheet metal workers in northern New Jersey recently completed work on the brand-new Terminal A at Newark Liberty Airport. The huge project, funded by a $3 billion investment from the Port Authority of New Jersey/New York, included 33 airline gates and eight bridges, [...]

Tags Airport, local 25, New Jersey, Northern New Jersey, Sheet Metal

BE4ALL launches standalone website to meet members’ needs, strengthen union

August 27, 2024 On August 1, 2024, Belonging and Excellence for All (BE4ALL) launched its brand-new standalone website, beforall.org — fulfilling a need the BE4ALL Committee had heard numerous times from SMART members and signatory contractors, and providing visitors with a one-stop shop for [...]

Tags be4all, diversity, inclusion, Members Journal, Recruitment and Retention, Summer 2024