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SMART Transportation Division (SMART TD), formerly the United Transportation Union, is an organization representing approximately 125,000 transportation employees throughout the nation. Our membership includes active railroad workers in all operating crafts including engineers, conductors, trainmen, switchmen and yardmasters, as well as a wide range of bus and transit operators, airline pilots and flight attendants.

Recent News

On October 6, 2017, the six Rail Unions comprising the Coordinated Bargaining Group (CBG) announced that they had reached a Tentative National Agreement with the Nation’s Freight Rail Carriers. Shortly after that announcement, a Union belonging to a different bargaining coalition began a campaign of misinformation, misrepresentation and outright falsehood in an effort to disrupt and undermine the democratic ratification process of the CBG Unions.