Rail labor organizations urge Biden to renominate Bragg to RRB

The following letter was submitted by the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, of which the SMART Transportation Division and Mechanical Division are members, on behalf of SMART and a number of other labor unions to President Joe Biden earlier this week. November 12, 2023 Dear President Biden: On behalf of the undersigned national rail […]

Longtime assistant to TD Illinois office retiring

The SMART Transportation Division in Illinois has been a beacon of productivity and progress for years.   Mirroring the state’s central role as a hub where the nation’s major Class I carriers operate, SMART-TD’s Illinois operation has plenty of accomplishments and fights won over the last two-plus decades.  During this period of success, there’s been one […]

SMOHIT expands mental health helpline service

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 uncertain economy and a slew of natural disasters created financial and personal […]

North and South Carolina members join for Solidarity Shoot

TD members from both North and South Carolina got together for a late summer clay shoot at DeWitt’s Sporting Clays in Ellerbe, N.C. About 57 people participated – including President Jeremy Ferguson and Alt. National Legislative Director Jared Cassity. North Carolina State Legislative Director Ron Ingerick organized the event and took part, as did SLD […]

SMART Leadership Conference concludes with stellar lineup of speakers, allies

The 2023 SMART Leadership Conference concluded Wednesday, Aug. 2. The joint session featured a wide variety of pro-labor speakers and allies from Congress, the Biden administration and beyond, demonstrating the strength of our union’s relationships as we work to seize this moment of opportunity. SMART Army award winners honored for practicing union values Each year, […]

“This is Our Time:” Second SMART Leadership Conference kicks off in Washington, D.C.

SMART leaders across sheet metal and the Transportation Division gathered in Washington, D.C., on July 31 to kick off the second annual SMART Leadership Conference. With a conference theme of “This is Our Time,” attendees convened to begin the hard work of making sure SMART seizes this moment of unprecedented opportunity across every craft and […]

SMART-TD Maryland members help rejuvenate Baltimore elementary school

SMART-TD members in Maryland mobilized on short notice to serve their community in April, joining a CSX and City Year Service Day spent rehabilitating and sprucing up Curtis Bay Elementary School near Baltimore. “CSX asked all their employees to be there, and this was really kind of last minute — they hadn’t done these in […]

House budget votes place Amtrak in the crosshairs

While Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) dollars are being allocated by the U.S. Department of Transportation to distribute to commuter and passenger rail projects as well as to transit agencies recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. House Appropriations Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and related agencies (THUD) subcommittee decided to pull $6.6 billion […]

Debt default threatens American workers: Take action today

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is threatening to let the United States default on its debt. $10 trillion of that debt is the result of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that his party championed. A default would be catastrophic for the economy, wiping out nearly 6 million jobs and $12 trillion of household wealth. This […]

NEMIC adds new director of implementation

Ohio native Cassandra Kline has been hired as NEMIC’s director of building construction technology, serving as a field representative to SMART locals all over the United States and Canada.