News Archive
44th Annual Canadian Apprentice Contest
On May 9th and 10th the Canadian Council of Sheet Metal Workers and Roofers sponsored its 44th Annual Sheet Metal Apprentice Contest in conjunction with their Annual Convention. This year’s contest attracted some of the top 4th year Sheet Metal Apprentices from across Canada [...]
Local 36 Daughter Honors Her Father With Visit To His Union Brothers
To celebrate her late father’s birthday and to say thanks for the work that members of SMART Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 perform, Angie Sonnenschein (wearing her dad’s Local 36 jacket) visited with Local 36 members. Brother Sonnenschein joined Local 36 in December 1979 and r [...]
GP Sellers Visits Philadelphia Members
On June 4th, SMART General President Joseph Sellers and Assistant to the General President Joseph Powell visited Local 19 members working at the Penn First rack building facility and Wm. J. Donovan’s thermaduct shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both men wanted to witness SM [...]
Two Family Members Win Union Plus Scholarships
Union Plus recently awarded $170,000 in scholarships to 108 students representing 34 unions, including two winning family members from SMART. This year’s group of scholarship recipients includes university, college, and trade or technical school students from 31 states plus t [...]
Local 1947 S&T killed in rail accident
Travis “Bowie” Andrepont, the secretary/treasurer of Local 1947 in Lake Charles, La., was killed before dawn on Tuesday, Aug. 20, in a rail accident in Beaumont, Texas. Andrepont, 39, of DeQuincy, La., had worked for Union Pacific for 16 years, a UP company spokes [...]
NCTD joins with SMART TD, NASA & FRA to participate in C3RS program
The North County Transit District (NCTD) has teamed up with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to add an extra level of safety for its staff, contractors and the public. On August 1, 2019, NCTD entered into a [...]
States join in fight to overturn FRA decision on two-person crews
In May, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) withdrew its proposed rulemaking to require two-person crews on freight trains. The agency then went further and stated that all state laws concerning the subject were preempted by the ruling. In response, SMART TD President J [...]
