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Jason Benson continues sheet metal career as SMART director of organizing

October 16, 2023 Jason Benson began his position as SMART director of organizing on June 29, 2023, following Darrell Roberts’ move to assistant to the general president. Benson began his career in the sheet metal trade in November of 1999 as a pre-apprentice working for Bright Sheet Metal in [...]
  • Tags Jason Benson, Local 20, organizing, SMART Director of Organizing

Joseph J. Nigro Award winners recognized for SMART Army solidarity

October 16, 2023 The Joseph J. Nigro SMART Army Service Award — given each year to selected sheet metal and Transportation Division members — is a recognition of the winners’ solidarity and dedication to their union, their SMART brothers and sisters and their communities. This year’s winners [...]
  • Tags 2023 Annual Leadership Conference, community service, Fall 2023, Joseph Nigro SMART Army Award, SMART Army

SMOHIT expands mental health helpline service

October 16, 2023 The Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (SMOHIT) Helpline, available 24 hours a day at 877-884-6227 to SMART members and their immediate families, was put in place long before COVID-19 disrupted the world. The idea for the hotline emerged when stressors from an un [...]
  • Tags Fall 2023, helpline, mental health, SMOHIT, suicide prevention

SMART Leadership Conference draws dozens of guest speakers to demonstrate: “This is our time”

October 16, 2023 SMART leaders across sheet metal and the Transportation Division gathered in Washington, DC, from July 31–August 2 for the second annual SMART Leadership Conference. With a conference theme of “This is Our Time,” attendees convened to make sure SMART seizes this moment of unp [...]
  • Tags Fall 2023, SMART leadership conference

This is our time

October 16, 2023 Director of Canadian Affairs message
  • Tags Canada, Canadian Affairs, Fall 2023, sustainable jobs

For new and veteran members, safety should always be top of mind

October 16, 2023 SMART Transportation Division President's Message
  • Tags Fall 2023, Members Journal, SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson, Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson

Our time, our opportunity

October 16, 2023 General Secretary-Treasurer's Message
  • Tags Fall 2023, General Secretary-Treasurer, Members Journal

Continuing the proud legacy of our union

October 16, 2023 General President's Message
  • Tags Fall 2023, GP Message, GP Sellers, Members Journal

SMART Sixth General Vice President Tim Carter retires

October 16, 2023 SMART Sixth General Vice President and Northwest Regional Council President Tim Carter retired on July 31, at the conclusion of the 2023 SMART Leadership Conference’s first day. He retires with a legacy of trailblazing success, having overseen extraordinary growth and progres [...]
  • Tags General Executive Council, leadership, Local 66, tim carter

Vice President John D. Whitaker III passes away at age 50

October 16, 2023 Vice President John D. “J.D.” Whitaker III, whose vital and key roles in negotiating numerous contracts on the general committee and national levels that improved the lives of many SMART-TD rail members, passed away July 27, 2023, of cancer. VP Whitaker was 50 years old. “It [...]
  • Tags Fall 2023, General Executive Council, obituary, SMART-TD Vice President John Whitaker III

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