News Archive
Eli Baccus named SMART Education Department director
Former local union organizer and SMART International Instructor Eli Baccus has begun his tenure as director of the SMART Education Department.
Organizing wins across Canada
Across Canada, SMART locals are organizing to grow our union and take on expected workforce demands.
What membership means: members detail union pride
The Spring 2025 BE4ALL Challenge raffle winners detailed the many ways union membership has changed their lives for the better, from health care and home ownership, to pride in the workplace.
TD Local 202 sister strengthens union, community
Over the past five years, Sister Tierney Gallegos (Local 202) has emerged as a model of leadership, service, and solidarity for our union.
New York locals lobby on members’ behalf
Following the 2025 NABTU Legislative Conference, New York sheet metal locals took to the Hill to collectively lobby on members' behalf.
Deyette, Bailey join SMART International leadership team
The SMART International leadership team is adding two new staff members, bolstering the International’s capacity in order to better serve members across North America.
“The purest form of brotherhood”
For SMART members, solidarity is more than just a word or belief system. It’s action. It means having each other’s backs without question — extending a hand without expecting anything in return.
What is so-called “right to work” — and why should we care?
So-called “right-to-work” laws force unions to represent and bargain on behalf of workers who don’t pay dues. Union dues are the funds that empower local unions to devote resources to bargaining better contracts, organizing more jobsites and workplaces, and better representing members.