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Local 20’s Easterline Profiles Union Apprenticeship Options On Local Indiana Show
Local 20’s Darryl Easterline visits a local news show on ABC 21 in Indiana to talk about Building Futures, a free Allen County pre-apprenticeship class to prepare people for careers in the skilled trades. Brother Esterline is President of the Northeast Indiana Building [...]
Vince Alvarado To Head NM Federation of Labor
On March 20, the New Mexico Federation of Labor Executive Board unanimously appointed Vince Alvarado to lead the state labor federation as their new President. Brother Alvarado is the Business Manager and Financial Secretary for SMART Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 49, a po [...]
IRS Releases Withholding Calculator
The Internal Revenue Service today released an updated Withholding Calculator on IRS.gov and a new version of Form W-4 to help taxpayers check their 2018 tax withholding following passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December. The IRS urges taxpayers to use these tools to [...]
2018 Partners In Progress Conference Starts Tomorrow
SMART General President Joseph Sellers, Jr. will be joined by SMACNA President Jack Knox as they kick off the 2018 Partners In Progress Conference. This is an exceptional opportunity for labor and management in the sheet metal industry to build on their relationship, share in [...]
LA County Metro Board Unanimously Approves First-of-Its-Kind Good Jobs Policy
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Board of Directors unanimously adopted a motion to establish an agency-wide Good Jobs and Equity Policy that will cover billions of dollars of taxpayer-purchased trains, buses, and equipment last night. The [...]
SMART SM Local 100 Hosts Former NAACP Chair Ben Jealous
The SMART Local 100 Training Facility has been a hotbed of activity in recent months with visits from US Dept of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta and now former NAACP Chairman and MD Gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous. According to Jealous, “College isn’t the only path [...]
Veterans Day 2017: We honor those who served
Click here for military discounts available on Veterans Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fig [...]
Coordinated Bargaining Group condemns interference in its ratification process
On October 6, 2017, the six Rail Unions comprising the Coordinated Bargaining Group (CBG) announced that they had reached a Tentative National Agreement with the Nation’s Freight Rail Carriers. Shortly after that announcement, a Union belonging to a different bargaining coali [...]