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Category: Members Journal

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SMART Local 105 members help build new LA Clippers arena

October 16, 2023 Throughout the spring and summer of 2023, approximately 125 SMART Local 105 members were performing HVAC, kitchen, architectural and TAB work on the new home of the Los Angeles Clippers, known officially as the Intuit Dome. The $2 billion project is slated to open for the 202 [...]
  • Tags Fall 2023, local 105, Los Angeles, megaproject, Sheet Metal, veterans

Local 206 members take on massive megaproject in San Diego

October 16, 2023 SMART Local 206 (San Diego, Calif.) sheet metal workers are currently on the job at the IQHQ Research and Development District in downtown San Diego: a large, mixed-use, life science development that spans eight acres and six city blocks. Once completed, it will be California [...]
  • Tags Fall 2023, local 206, megaproject, San Diego

Special Focus: This is our time

July 31, 2023 SMART members positioned for unprecedented opportunity The time is now for our union. Across all the industries and crafts represented in our union — HVAC installation, railroading, indoor air quality, transit operation, architectural sheet metal, production, sign work, bus o [...]
  • Tags infrastructure, megaprojects, organizing, rail safety, recruitment, two-person crews

This is our time

July 31, 2023 General President's Message
  • Tags GP Message, GP Sellers, Members Journal, Summer 2023

This is our time to prepare for a changing world

July 31, 2023 General Secretary-Treasurer's Message
  • Tags General Secretary-Treasurer, Members Journal, Summer 2023

Bus and transit workers deserve protection

July 31, 2023 SMART Transportation Division President's Message
  • Tags Members Journal, SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson, Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson

Raising the standards for all workers

July 31, 2023 Director of Canadian Affairs message
  • Tags Canada, Canadian Affairs, Summer 2023, sustainable jobs

FRA issues safety advisory on long trains

July 31, 2023 On April 27, Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Amit Bose issued a safety advisory regarding carriers’ operation of longer trains. The recommendations by FRA include that carriers review theiroperating rules and existing locomotive engineer certification prog [...]
  • Tags Federal Railroad Administration, long trains, safety advisory

Darrell Roberts takes on new challenges as assistant to the general president

July 31, 2023 Darrell L. Roberts is now assistant to the general president at SMART. Previously, he served as the SMART director of organizing and spent nearly 14 years as the executive director of Helmets to Hardhats (H2H). He has served in the United States Navy as a hull technician and [...]
  • Tags Members Journal, Summer 2023

New GP Coleman brings leadership, innovation to members

July 31, 2023 New SMART General President Michael Coleman has been stepping up for his fellow members since his days as a rank-and-file sheet metal worker in Cleveland. He worked as a foreman shortly after becoming a journeyperson, then decided he wanted to represent his brothers and siste [...]
  • Tags General President Michael Coleman, Local 33, megaprojects, Members Journal, Ohio, Summer 2023

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