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Momentum shifting in state battles

May 23, 2016 It’s not just federal elections that have an impact on working families. As we were reminded all too well in places like Wisconsin and Michigan, state and local elections can have far reaching consequences. For the past six years, working families have been placed on the defe [...]

Rail-car plants get PLA, then Union Labor

May 23, 2016 SMART is part of Jobs to Move America (JMA), a coalition of six international unions and more than 40 major community groups. JMA works with officials, agencies, and businesses to make sure that the nation’s more than $5.7 billion in annual transportation manufacturing work i [...]

Unity holds in long strike at Seattle Firm

May 19, 2016 For the past nine months, members of SMART SM Local 66 (Seattle, WA) have been battling in a labor dispute with Northshore Sheet Metal. This strike originally started with a dispute at the bargaining table over wage equalization, work preservation and language related to trav [...]

City of Lac-Megantic, Quebec studying plan to reroute railway

May 12, 2016 In the wake of the devastating oil train disaster nearly three years ago that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, city leaders are in the first phase of studies to determine the feasibility of rerouting the train tracks to avoid train transit through the city’s downtown [...]

Tags freight rail safety data, two-person rail crews

GP Sellers: SMART Disaster Relief for Members Affected By Fort McMurray Fire

May 12, 2016

Donald Trump: All talk, no plan for Appalachian coal

May 5, 2016 The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported that although Donald Trump asserted that he will get Appalachian coal miners back to work, he failed to provide details on exactly how he will revitalize the Appalachian coal industry. Read the entire story here.

Tags coal, Freight rail, Trump

SMART TD at round table with Hillary Clinton in Kentucky

May 3, 2016 On May 2nd, SMART TD Kentucky State Legislative Director Jared Cassity and SMART TD Vice President Doyle Turner paticipated in a round table discussion in Ashland, Ky. with presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Read the complete story here.

Tags coal, freight, rail workers

SMART TD at round table with Hillary Clinton in Ashland, Ky.

May 3, 2016 On May 2nd, SMART TD Kentucky State Legislative Director Jared Cassity and SMART TD Vice President Doyle Turner participated in a round table discussion in Ashland, Ky. with presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Lexington Herald Leader repo [...]

Tags Doyle Turner, Hillary Clinton, Jared Cassity

N.Y. State Comptroller DiNapoli urges Feds to increase oil train safety

April 28, 2016 Timesunion reported that New York State comptroller Tom DiNapoli has written a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, urging for increased oil train safety measures and warning how oil train spills could threaten state funds. Read the entire story [...]

Tags Anthony Foxx, N.Y. State Comptroller DiNapoli, oil train safety, U.S. Department of Transportation

CN Rail trestle bridge burns to ground in Mayerthorpe, Alta.

April 28, 2016 CBC News reported that a CN Rail trestle bridge was destroyed by fire in Mayerthorpe, Alta; and that the fire may have been purposely set. Read the entire story here.

Tags Canadian National, CN, trestle bridge