Category: Transportation
2024 rail fringe benefit sheet released
Many factors weigh into our salaries and compensation packages; seniority, assignment preferences, rail traffic/volume and work location, to name a few. When working on an extra board, sometimes our compensation depends on downright luck. The provisions of on-property agreeme [...]
TD National Training Seminar is ready for registrants!
Registration is now open for the Transportation Division’s (TD) 2024 National Training Seminar at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown in Cleveland, Ohio, from July 9, 2024, to July 11, 2024. This unique and exciting event is open to all TD Local, State Legislative Board, and Genera [...]
Safety, tech report links back online in SMART app
Links to the Transportation Division’s workplace Safety Condition Report and the railroad Technology Event Report in the SMART app are again functional for Transportation Division members. The links to the report submission forms should work upon opening the app and the [...]
Online fundraiser established for survivors of slain Local 171 member
An online fundraiser has been set up for the survivors of Dexter Perkins, a member of Local 171 (Aurora, Ill.), after he was slain in an act of violence Dec. 22 in Wheaton, Illinois. Brother Perkins, 37, had been a member of our union since September 2022 and worked as a cond [...]
Biden administration joins union’s fight to protect bus and transit workforce
Phone: (216) 228-9400Department Email: news_td@smart-union.org INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (Dec. 27, 2023) – The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, and Rail Transportation Workers Transportation Division (SMART-TD) has been calling for years for the Federal Transit Adminis [...]
Registration open for Albuquerque RTS
The SMART Transportation Division’s next Regional Training Seminar (RTS) is scheduled to take place March 4 through 7, 2024, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Albuquerque. Attendee check-in begins the afternoon of March 4, and those attending should plan to arrive then. Cl [...]
Victory in the Empire State: N.Y. two-person crew bill signed
Given a second chance to act, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has chosen to side with safety. In late 2022, a bill requiring two-person crews on freight trains in the state reached her desk and she vetoed it. But something changed this year — perhaps it was seeing legislatures and [...]