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Category: Fall 2025

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Special Focus: SMART leaders fight for what matters — the members — at 2025 Leadership Conference

November 5, 2025 The 2025 SMART Leadership Conference brought together local union officers from every craft, trade and industry, across North America, to New York City, New York. Officers gathered with one common purpose: "Fighting for What Matters...Our Members."
  • Tags Fall 2025, General President Coleman, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Members Journal, Trump anti-labor president

Power in solidarity

November 5, 2025 General President's Message
  • Tags Fall 2025, GP Coleman, GP Message, Members Journal

Fighting for what’s right

November 5, 2025 General Secretary-Treasurer's Message
  • Tags Fall 2025, General Secretary-Treasurer, John Daniel, Members Journal

What it means to be in SMART-TD

November 5, 2025 SMART Transportation Division President's Message
  • Tags Members Journal, SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson, Summer 2025

Canadian Affairs Report: Committed to progress

November 5, 2025 Director of Canadian Affairs message
  • Tags Canada, Canadian Affairs, Fall 2025, Jack Wall, Members Journal

Committees meet to strengthen SMART, benefit members

November 5, 2025 Members of the SMART Women’s, BE4ALL and RISE Committees met on Sunday, August 3, ahead of the 2025 SMART Lead­ership Conference — bringing members together from across North America to dis­cuss the committees’ individual and collective efforts to strengthen our union.
  • Tags be4all, Fall 2025, Members Journal, RISE Committee, Women's Committee

Member profile: Brother Bill Link retires after blazing trails on the rails

November 5, 2025 After exactly 53 years of service, Brother Bill Link (Local 1470) retired from Amtrak on June 27. Read on to hear what spurred his railroad career, the lessons he’s learned, and the legacy that he leaves behind for future generations.
  • Tags Amtrak, Fall 2025, retiree

GP Coleman discusses California high-speed rail project in video for members

November 5, 2025 SMART General President Michael Coleman has published a number of videos in recent months — aiming to cut through the noise of corporate media and partisan influencers, and to make sure SMART members are informed about the issues affect­ing their jobs, their futures and their [...]
  • Tags California high speed rail, Fall 2025, GP Coleman, Members Journal

Naloxone cabinets available to SMART locals via SMOHIT

November 5, 2025 Every SMART union hall and training center is eligible to receive one cabinet with four boxes, or eight doses, of naloxone, a synthetic, potent antagonist for opioid drugs, including morphine and fentanyl.
  • Tags Fall 2025, GP Coleman, Members Journal, mental health, SMOHIT

General President Coleman, SMACNA President Martin host BE4ALL Town Hall in Cleveland

November 5, 2025 On July 17, 2025, SMART General President Michael Coleman and SMACNA President Tom Martin hosted the first-ever BE4ALL Town Hall at the Local 33 union hall in Cleveland, Ohio, discussing the initiative and taking questions from the more than 160 in-person attendees and viewers across North America watching via livestream.
  • Tags be4all, Fall 2025, GP Coleman, Members Journal

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