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Department of Labor updates prevailing wage regulations in win for SMART members and building trades workers

October 16, 2023 On August 8, United States Vice President Kamala Harris and Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) Julie Su announced the publication of a rule that updates the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, strengthening prevailing wage regulations and raising pay standards for SM [...]

Tags Davis-Bacon, DOL, Julie Su, prevailing wages, statement

SMART-TD, RME members secure paid sick leave for rail workers at Union Pacific

October 16, 2023 The oldest railroad in the nation has finally realized that people get sick. About 6,000 SMART Transportation Division conductors and trainmen and 75 SMART Rail, Mechanical and Engineering (RME) Department workers have secured paid sick leave from Union Pacific after voting t [...]

Tags sick leave, SMART RME, SMART TD, Union Pacific

Ray Reasons appointed 11th General Vice President

October 16, 2023 Ray D. Reasons II was appointed SMART 11th General Vice President on August 1, 2023, following the retirement of Tim Carter. Reasons began his career as an apprentice with Local 36 (St. Louis, Mo.) in 1994 and was initiated as a journeyperson in January of 2000. Throughout hi [...]

Tags General Executive Council, leadership, Local 36, Ray Reasons

Jason Benson continues sheet metal career as SMART director of organizing

October 16, 2023 Jason Benson began his position as SMART director of organizing on June 29, 2023, following Darrell Roberts’ move to assistant to the general president. Benson began his career in the sheet metal trade in November of 1999 as a pre-apprentice working for Bright Sheet Metal in [...]

Tags Jason Benson, Local 20, organizing, SMART Director of Organizing

Joseph J. Nigro Award winners recognized for SMART Army solidarity

October 16, 2023 The Joseph J. Nigro SMART Army Service Award — given each year to selected sheet metal and Transportation Division members — is a recognition of the winners’ solidarity and dedication to their union, their SMART brothers and sisters and their communities. This year’s winners [...]

Tags 2023 Annual Leadership Conference, community service, Fall 2023, Joseph Nigro SMART Army Award, SMART Army

SMOHIT expands mental health helpline service

October 16, 2023 The Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (SMOHIT) Helpline, available 24 hours a day at 877-884-6227 to SMART members and their immediate families, was put in place long before COVID-19 disrupted the world. The idea for the hotline emerged when stressors from an un [...]

Tags Fall 2023, helpline, mental health, SMOHIT, suicide prevention

SMART Leadership Conference draws dozens of guest speakers to demonstrate: “This is our time”

October 16, 2023 SMART leaders across sheet metal and the Transportation Division gathered in Washington, DC, from July 31–August 2 for the second annual SMART Leadership Conference. With a conference theme of “This is Our Time,” attendees convened to make sure SMART seizes this moment of unp [...]