Category: Members Journal
SMART sisters serve their communities for Women in Construction Week
As part of Women in Construction Week 2024, the SMART Women’s Committee called on union members to take part in a day of community service during the month of March, demonstrating the power of solidarity and spreading the word about the union sheet metal trade. And from coast [...]
Organizing II class lays further groundwork for future growth
The SMART Education Department held its Organizing II class in Chicago, Ill., during the week of May 13th. Organizing II focuses on strategic research and application and dives deeper into the strategies and tactics learned in Organizing I, such as salting, voluntary/internal [...]
Local 18 empowers members with COMET classes
By Hallie Jennerman, Local 18 organizing director SMART Local 18 (Wisconsin) hosts COMET — Construction Organizing Membership Education Training — classes annually in January for our second-year apprentices and newly organized members. In 2024, our Organizing Department held [...]
SMART MAP heads to Canada
The SMART MAP mental health sessions have been evolving since they began more than a decade ago to combat the high suicide and substance use disorder rates among construction workers. Participants in the class become SMART MAP mentors, as they learn to be mental health first [...]
ITI hires first-ever curriculum writer
For the first time in its more-than-50-year history, the International Training Institute (ITI) has hired a full-time curriculum writer on staff, Mark Colone. The Pennsylvania native comes to the ITI after a long history of working with the union training fund on curricu [...]
Pickens named NEMI field staff representative
Joe Pickens officially joined NEMI as a field staff representative for the Midwest region on April 1. In this role, he serves as a liaison for local unions and members of SMART, helping identify solutions and opportunities in the market. The Virginia resident entered the appr [...]
Local 280 apprentices build working R2D2 model
Five Local 280 (Vancouver, B.C.) apprentices at the Sheet Metal Workers’ Training Centre (SMWTC) have mastered the Forces of creativity, problem-solving and hard work by creating a life-size, working R2-D2 model — complete with a soundboard and spinning head — for their fourt [...]
Local 46 apprentices help restore historic trolley car
This article was originally published on WNYLaborToday.com. When it comes to giving back to the Rochester, N.Y., community, SMART Local 46 members are ready, willing and able to do what they can, when they can. In 2023, that meant giving their time and skills at the Rochester [...]