SMART-TD
UP, SMART-TD reach agreement to keep two-person crews
(Source: Progressive Railroading 03/27/2023) Union Pacific Railroad and its largest union have reached a tentative agreement that would maintain two-person train crews. The agreement with the General Committee 953 of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD), makes no changes to the current conductor position staffing each train as part of a…
Read MorePetition drive launched to compel action on carrier attendance policies
CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 7, 2022) — In conjunction with the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), the SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) urge all members to engage in a petition drive to bring attention to the draconian and punitive attendance policies that have forced rail workers to live…
Read MoreSMART-TD wins another victory in the crew consist battle
(Source: SMART-TD press release, January 15, 2021) CLEVELAND, Ohio — On January 8, 2021, Arbitrator Wendell Bell issued his arbitration award regarding the process and procedure in arbitrating the Carriers’ (UP, BNSF, NS & KCS) attack on the Crew Consist Moratoria. The arbitration, known as a “Procedural Public Law Board,” had the purpose of determining the…
Read MoreAmerica’s freight railroads refuse to cover out-of-pocket COVID-19 costs
(Source: Column by SMART-TD Vice President Brent Leonard, April 20, 2020) CLEVELAND, Ohio —While America and the world struggle to combat the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, new heroes have emerged. While much of America has long celebrated its athletes and celebrities as its heroes, this pandemic has shown us who the real heroes are in our society. At…
Read MoreSMART-TD member passes from coronavirus
(Source: SMART Transportation Division press release, April 8, 2020) CLEVELAND, Ohio — Joseph Hansen, a conductor out of Local 60 (Newark, N.J.) who worked for New Jersey Transit (NJT), passed away recently to become the first reported active SMART Transportation Division member to succumb to COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Hansen was 62 years old and had…
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