Category: White House
SMART-TD Transit Union welcomes FTA’s historic directive to combat operator assaults
Our multi-year effort to protect our bus and transit membership takes a significant step ahead when FTA announces its first directive to stop operator assaults.
If Musk becomes the head government spending slasher, will he bring automation along for the ride?
Presidential nominee Donald Trump restated his plan to appoint tech innovator Elon Musk to the head of a government efficiency commission. With a history of automation, harsh working conditions and thinly veiled union busting, will a push for self-driving buses or robot trains be far behind?
SMART-TD endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for President: A commitment to two-person crews and worker safety
SMART Transportation Division made major progress during the first term of the Biden-Harris administration. The union endorses Kamala Harris in the November election.
Trump: If they strike, they’re fired. Musk: Ha, ha, ha!
Listen for yourself: Ex-president Trump and billionaire Elon Musk say what they think about people who do the work. It's clear they're against us.
Setting the record straight: Batory’s nomination to Amtrak board
Ron Batory’s nomination to the Amtrak board isn’t even a Presidential appointment despite inflammatory reports to the contrary. SMART-TD sets the record straight on what’s going on and where that misinformation came from.
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 [...]
President Biden announces $6B to realize high-speed rail connecting Las Vegas and Southern California
As the expression goes, there is strength in numbers. The SMART Transportation Division is about to get a whole lot stronger thanks to yesterday’s announcement by President Joe Biden in Las Vegas, Nevada. On Dec. 8, President Biden and SMART-TD President Jer [...]
AFL-CIO TTD unions reaffirm rail labor’s support for STB chair
On June 13, Greg Regan, president of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), of which the SMART Transportation Division is a member, sent a letter to President Joe Biden regarding recent attacks on Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin Oberman. The text of [...]