Category: Fall 2024
Third SMART General Convention recap: committee reports
Throughout the Third SMART General Convention, various convention committees delivered reports to delegates. Rules Committee Committee Chair Bill Kenyon (Local 54, Southwest Gulf Coast Regional Council) and Committee Secretary Mark Hall (Local 473) presented the committee’s r [...]
K.C. bus agreement follows SMART-TD’s focus on coaching local officers
A Kansas City transit union secured massive raises after a negotiation bootcamp with a SMART-TD vice president. “Not only did this help in negotiating this agreement, but it’s also made me more effective in representing my members on the property in day-to-day operations” – Ethel Maze, Local 1704 president
Local 398 elects and installs new slate of officers
SMART Rail, Mechanical and Engineering (RME) members employed by San Diego Trolley Inc. (SDTI) in San Diego, Calif., and North County Transit District (NCTD) in Oceanside, Calif., have elected a new slate of officers to guide Local 398 into the future. Local 398 is responsibl [...]
SMART-TD honors pioneering LIRR sisters
Back in March of 2000, a group of then-UTU (United Transportation Union) female conductors was joined by women from other transportation crafts to recognize these groundbreaking sisters on the railroad. The photo was taken in front of a then brand-new Dual Mode Locomotive Eng [...]
Local 85 apprentice organizes Atlanta union members for historic community service event
Local 85 apprentice Dyana Lee organized a "Unions Unite" event to foster solidarity and serve the Atlanta community.
Local 435 lifts working conditions, pay and benefits in Gainesville
Florida is a so-called “right-to-work” state, where unions consistently weather anti-worker attacks from corporate-beholden lawmakers seeking to weaken our collective bargaining power. But that hasn’t stopped SMART Local 435 (Jacksonville, Fla.) from organizing.
SMART, DOT partner to put Local 104 members to work
Following multiple letters submitted and concerted outreach to the United States Department of Transportation by SMART Governmental Affairs staff, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority secured $5.1 billion from the federal government to help fund the construction of [...]
Local 100 helps fight wage theft in Washington, DC
Washington, DC, Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit against five companies in late June, alleging that they engaged in a “widespread misclassification scheme that deprived hundreds of District construction workers the wages and benefits they were entitled to under [...]