Category: Alumni Association News

Home>News>Alumni Association News

SMART-TD joins #EssentialAlways campaign to honor transportation workers

September 3, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Labor Day, the SMART Transportation Division is proudly joining the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department, (TTD), to recognize and thank frontline transportation workers for their service and sacrifice, and remind Americans that our transportation w [...]

Tags AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department

Palmetto GBA: Let’s talk about mental health during the pandemic

July 20, 2021 Mental health is one of those things that we don’t want to talk about too much. With so much still unknown about the coronavirus, many people are still depressed, anxious, scared and stressed. We’ve watched how the world has changed during the pandemic, with millions of peopl [...]

Tags anxiety, coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, Medicare, mental health, Palmetto GBA, stress

SMART-TD arbitrates crew-consist dispute

July 9, 2021 On June 15 and 16, 2021, the simmering dispute between the SMART Transportation Division and carriers over crew consist finally reached arbitration before neutral party John LaRocca in Sacramento, Calif. Class I railroads BNSF, UP, NS and KCS initiated a claim in October 2019 [...]

Tags arbitration, crew consist, moratorium