The Legislative Action Center enables members to learn about policy issues and legislation that directly impact their jobs and livelihoods and provides them easy access to contact their elected representatives to let them know their views.
Members can also see how their representatives voted on legislation, learn about upcoming elections in their state, and even write a letter to the editor of their local newspaper.
Collaboration between the SMART International Association and Local 441 led to the hiring of a retired steward at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Missouri as a subsidized organizer. That, in turn, helped spark a successful internal organizing campaign that won workers a momentous contract — demonstrating the power of organizing from coast to coast.
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— Jun 15
Within the span of a week, two headlines painted two very different pictures of assaults involving the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS). Read on to learn more about these safety-focused discrepancies and how SMART-TD is committed to changing the narrative.
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— Jun 12
A recent story from SMART Local 73 (Chicago and Cook County, Illinois) shows just how important organizing is to members and their families. Through coordinated job action, strategic market recovery efforts and strong teamwork from members and staff, Local 73 successfully reclaimed multiple Home Depot rooftop unit replacement projects from a non-signatory contractor and secured the work for a Local 73 union contractor.
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— Jun 12
A U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday was billed as a Top Gun style “Need For Speed” vision for transportation technology. Read on to see how Senator Todd Young and the Association of American Railroads (AAR) took the hearing from Top Gun to a horror movie for real-life railroaders.
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— Jun 11
From June 7-10, 2026, affiliated unions of the AFL-CIO, including SMART, came together for the federation’s convention in Minneapolis, Minn.: charting a path forward for our movement and strategizing on how we can secure a UNIONIZED future. Led by General President Michael Coleman, who also served on the AFL-CIO’s Constitution Committee, SMART delegates attended to bring the voice of sheet metal and transportation members to the largest gathering of organized labor in our nation.
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— Jun 11
