Sheet metal

Norfolk Southern, BLET, and SMART-TD partner with FRA to launch groundbreaking C3RS pilot program

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Monday, January 29, 2024

ATLANTA and INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC), the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division (SMART-TD), in partnership with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), announced Monday their joint participation in an FRA Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) pilot program designed to enhance railroad safety.

Key Points: 
  • "NS is proud to partner with our labor leaders and FRA to make another industry-leading advancement in safety," said Alan H. Shaw, Norfolk Southern President and CEO.
  • Under the one-year C3RS pilot, covered NS employees can report safety concerns with the certainty that such reports will not result in discipline.
  • Participation in this C3RS pilot underscores NS, BLET, and SMART-TD's shared belief that collaboration and transparency are foundational pillars of an effective safety program.
  • "We appreciate BLET, NS, and SMART-TD's collaboration on this important partnership, and FRA remains committed to further expanding participation in the C3RS program to advance safety."

Fictiv Expands Global Manufacturing Network to Include Sheet Metal, Die Casting, Compression Molding

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fictiv, a global manufacturing company, announced today a significant expansion of its production manufacturing capabilities, adding Sheet Metal, Die Casting, and Compression Molding to its global network and AI-powered quote-to-order platform. With these new capabilities, Fictiv offers engineering and supply chain teams a path to streamline sourcing for all metal and plastic parts in a product's bill of materials, from prototype to low-volume production, through a single global company.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fictiv , a global manufacturing company, announced today a significant expansion of its production manufacturing capabilities, adding Sheet Metal , Die Casting , and Compression Molding to its global network and AI-powered quote-to-order platform.
  • In total, Fictiv now offers seven primary manufacturing technologies—Injection Molding, 3D Printing, CNC Machining, Urethane Casting, Compression Molding, Die Casting, and Sheet Metal—as well as hundreds of material and finishing options across four global regions, providing customers with an extensive range of custom manufacturing services and production capacity.
  • "With Fictiv, we know our mechanical parts are with a safe pair of hands," said Michelle Kim, CEO of m'Chel, an innovative haircare product company.
  • To learn more about Fictiv's full range of manufacturing offerings, please visit Fictiv's website .

$3B Advisor Firm Mammini Company Shifts to Commonwealth for Next Wave of Growth

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Commonwealth Financial Network®, a national firm dedicated to providing financial advisors with holistic, integrated business solutions, announces that Mammini Company, a former Lincoln Investments firm from San Diego, California, has joined its network of affiliated advisors.

Key Points: 
  • Commonwealth Financial Network®, a national firm dedicated to providing financial advisors with holistic, integrated business solutions, announces that Mammini Company, a former Lincoln Investments firm from San Diego, California, has joined its network of affiliated advisors.
  • With nearly $3 billion in client assets, Mammini is built to last and is poised for its next wave of growth.
  • Owner and president Mike Mammini, CFP®, CIMA®, AIF®, is one of four advisors, including son Mitch Mammini, CFA®, on the staff of eight.
  • Mammini grounds its relationships with clients—especially labor unions and corporate retirement plan sponsors—in the shared value of craftsmanship and integrity.

BNSF Railway, SMART-TD Reach Tentative Agreement on PEB Articles VI & VII, Paid Sick Days and More

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Transportation Division (SMART-TD) and BNSF Railway have reached a system-wide agreement that will significantly benefit ground service employees at BNSF.

Key Points: 
  • The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Transportation Division (SMART-TD) and BNSF Railway have reached a system-wide agreement that will significantly benefit ground service employees at BNSF.
  • The tentative agreement follows up on the mandatory local bargaining items from last year’s Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) and goes well beyond.
  • This breakthrough tentative agreement comes after several months of negotiations, and pending ratification by SMART-TD's members at BNSF, it is expected to bring positive changes to both the professional and personal lives of these employees.
  • The agreement will allow for more predictable scheduling (with rest days available to all pool and extra board employees) and enables all ground service employees to take paid sick days, with many additional quality of work/life changes.

SMACNA Applauds The U.S. Department of Labor's Historic Davis-Bacon Act Reforms

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

SMACNA's federal as well as non-federal contractors applaud the Department of Labor's long needed reforms updating and modernizing the Davis-Bacon Act to benefit every contractor and worker.

Key Points: 
  • SMACNA's federal as well as non-federal contractors applaud the Department of Labor's long needed reforms updating and modernizing the Davis-Bacon Act to benefit every contractor and worker.
  • Misguided and outdated reforms were made decades ago seemingly designed to limit the enforcement and effectiveness of the Act and its clear and specific statutory intent.
  • SMACNA most enthusiastically endorses the Department's return to the 30% Rule after decades of harm to the Act.
  • SMACNA CEO Aaron Hilger said that SMACNA members appreciate DOL's tireless efforts to seek our input and that of all quality driven contractor organizations in reforming the Davis-Bacon Act.

CSX and SMART-TD Partner to Deliver Enhanced Conductor Training with Additional Week of Hands-on Experience

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Monday, July 31, 2023

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced they are partnering to extend CSX’s conductor training program to five weeks from the previous four-week regimen to provide new hires with additional hands-on experience prior to beginning on-the-job training (OJT).

Key Points: 
  • JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced they are partnering to extend CSX’s conductor training program to five weeks from the previous four-week regimen to provide new hires with additional hands-on experience prior to beginning on-the-job training (OJT).
  • The extra week of training at the CSX Training Center in Atlanta will focus on performing tasks in a field setting to increase trainees’ exposure to railcar switching scenarios, radio communication, securement of equipment, brake tests and other fundamentals of the conductor’s role.
  • Hands-on application of these skills begins in the third week of training, and the additional week will reinforce trainees’ comfort level by providing multiple opportunities to perform the tasks while operating on first and second shifts.
  • “The additional week of new-hire training in Atlanta will help conductors strengthen their skills in preparation for their on-the-job training assignment.”
    CSX developed the extended training program in consultation with the SMART-TD, which represents its train crew employees.

Norfolk Southern, SMART-TD collaborate to enhance conductor training and raise craft trainer pay

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

ATLANTA and INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced Wednesday that they are partnering to launch several new initiatives to further enhance the training program for conductor trainees and increase compensation for conductors who help provide this important training.

Key Points: 
  • "Ensuring that every conductor trainee receives proper training is the foundation of running a safe railroad," said Jeremy Ferguson, president of SMART-TD.
  • "Our craft colleagues are the heart of Norfolk Southern," said Alan H. Shaw, president and CEO of Norfolk Southern.
  • "The collaboration of SMART-TD and Norfolk Southern will vigorously improve the conductor training program," said General Chairperson David Phillips.
  • The new training compensation package places a well-deserved increased value on the conductor craft."

Union Pacific and SMART-TD Ink Tentative Paid Sick Leave Agreement

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Monday, July 10, 2023

OMAHA, Neb., July 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Pacific Railroad and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) reached a tentative agreement to provide up to eight paid sick leave days to around 5,900 railroad employees.

Key Points: 
  • OMAHA, Neb., July 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Pacific Railroad and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) reached a tentative agreement to provide up to eight paid sick leave days to around 5,900 railroad employees.
  • While all Union Pacific employees receive some form of paid leave, the proposed agreement will provide SMART-TD members an additional five paid sick days annually, prorated for 2023.
  • Beginning in 2024, they also will have the ability to convert up to three paid leave days for use as paid sick time.
  • If ratified by SMART-TD, Union Pacific will have paid sick leave agreements in place with all 13 of its labor unions, becoming the second railroad in the industry to reach this milestone.

Norfolk Southern and SMART-TD reach yardmaster sick leave deal, completing negotiations with all unions

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Monday, June 5, 2023

ATLANTA, and INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced today that they have reached an agreement with representatives for their final group of craft employees – yardmasters – to provide up to seven paid sick days per year.

Key Points: 
  • The agreement will immediately provide nearly 300 Norfolk Southern yardmasters with four new days of paid sick leave per year while also offering them the flexibility to use up to three additional days of existing paid time off as sick leave.
  • With this agreement, Norfolk Southern is the first Class I railroad to have negotiated paid sick leave agreements for 100 percent of its craft workforce.
  • This final paid sick leave agreement for yardmasters builds on the momentum from the comprehensive quality-of-life package that Norfolk Southern and SMART-TD negotiated last month for another group of SMART-TD members – conductors and trainmen.
  • The conductor and trainmen agreement, which included paid sick leave, was ratified by union membership last Friday.

CSX and SMART-TD CSRA Union Reach Tentative Agreement on Paid Sick Leave

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Monday, May 22, 2023

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CSX Corp. (NASDAQ: CSX) today announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division CSRA (SMART-TD CSRA) to provide paid sick leave benefits.

Key Points: 
  • JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CSX Corp. (NASDAQ: CSX) today announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division CSRA (SMART-TD CSRA) to provide paid sick leave benefits.
  • SMART-TD CSRA represents trainmen, conductors and yardmen on territories of the former A&WP, WSSB, L&N, NC&STL and SCL railroads.
  • The SMART-TD CSRA agreement, which is pending ratification by union members, marks the 10th such agreement CSX has reached with its union-represented employees since February.
  • A majority of the company’s unionized workers now have paid sick leave benefits.