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GP Nigro: Every Member Should Be Part Of Constitution Process

It was really great meeting so many of your leadership team at the recent regional meetings in Boston and Anaheim. They are an active and involved group with a commitment to the labor movement. It confirmed my belief in the potential value we have in joining forces on several [...]

New Chapters of SMART History Available Online

Chapters 8 and 9 of Honor the Past, Fight for the Future: A History of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association, 1888-2012, are available online.  Both delve into the recent history of the Jurisdictional and Organizing activities within the organization, with a focu [...]

Veolia gets Tri-Rail contract extension

The Board of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority unanimously voted Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, to award Veolia Transportation the three remaining option years for the company’s Tri-Rail contract. The contract now extends through June 2017. The South Florida [...]

Every member should be part of Constitution process

By SMART General President Joe Nigro –  It was really great meeting so many of your leadership team at the recent regional meetings in Boston and Anaheim. They are an active and involved group with a commitment to the labor movement. It confirmed my belief in the potential va [...]

Railroad industry awaits new tank car regulations

BISMARCK — As oil industry representatives met here Tuesday to discuss the ever changing industry, one thing was clear, there will be new regulations over shipping crude oil by train. After the July derailment in Canada of a train carrying crude oil from North Dakota, t [...]

State judge rules right-to-work law unconstitutional

HAMMOND, Ind. – A Lake County Superior Court judge has ruled Indiana’s right-to-work law unconstitutional, but the decision doesn’t mark the end of a legal battle over the measure. Judge John Sedia ruled the law unconstitutional last week because the state c [...]

Crew member texting before Ind. derailment

A federal investigation found a freight train crew member was distracted by text messaging soon before crashing into a stopped train in northwestern Indiana, causing the derailment of more than two dozen locomotives and rail cars. The January 2012 derailment in a rural area a [...]

Passage cleared for taller trains

The first phase of CSX Transportation’s National Gateway project, which will allow trains carrying maximum-sized freight containers stacked two-high to travel between Ohio and East Coast ports, has been completed on time and within budget, the railroad said. The project [...]

TTD seeks to strengthen ‘Buy America’ policy

WASHINGTON – The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) Sept. 6 endorsed certain changes by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to Buy America policy that will lead to job creation and stronger transportation and manufacturing sectors. “TTD and our affiliated u [...]

TTD supports "Buy America" standards

The following letter from AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Edward Wytkind was sent to the Federal Highway Administration in support of maintaining the administration’s “Buy America” policy standards.  Dear Mr. Yakowenko, On behalf of the Transportation Trade [...]