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Action Request: Stand With Your Brothers and Sisters at Amtrak
The livelihoods of thousands of transportation workers have been disrupted by COVID since its onset this past spring. Our brothers and sisters at Amtrak are the latest to have their lives upended by this pandemic. Nearly 2,000 of the carrier’s unionized workers, including 500 [...]
Mooney Appointed to SMART GEC
Mike Mooney is in his 34th year as a SMART sheet metal worker. He started his Sheet Metal career in 1986, finished his 5-year Apprenticeship in 1991 and worked with the tools as a Foreman until 2000. In 2000, he was appointed as a Local 18 Union Organizer and continued in thi [...]STEPS Challenge announces winners, fall challenge
Congratulations to the winners of SMOHIT’s Spring STEPS Challenge, which ended on April 30. SMOHIT would like to thank all the participants for committing to their health and team spirit during the STEPS Challenge. The fall STEPS Challenge will begin Sept. 15 and continue thr [...]
NEMIC recognizes Local 105, 88 with industry awards
This summer, NEMIC announced its annual Industry Awards, which recognize a local, training center, Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association chapter and other sheet metal organizations for leadership, commitment and innovation in the unionized sheet m [...]
Dan McCallum named executive director of the Sheet Metal Funds
The sponsor organizations of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) and the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) have selected Dan McCallum as the executive director of the International Traini [...]
Wolf Metals integral to creating units to sanitize PPE
On a Thursday morning in March, when much of the country was being told to shelter in place due to the effects of COVID-19, Mike Wolf, plant manager for the small, family owned, custom sheet metal company Wolf Metals, attended a meeting at the Ohio technology and research org [...]
Video in DNC’s first night highlights relationship between Biden, SMART retiree
Gregg B. Weaver, a retired member of SMART-TD Local 898 who rode with former Vice President Joe Biden many times during the longtime senator’s commute from Delaware to Washington D.C., was featured in a video presented Monday, Aug. 17, during the first night of the Demo [...]
Kansas DOT proposes two-person crew regulation
Another state is making a two-person freight crew the law of their land. On July 27, the Kansas State Department of Transportation proposed a regulation that requires railroads that operate in the state to maintain a two-person crew in the lead locomotive. “Kansas now joins a [...]