Ready to Work
Ready to Work stipend requirements:
Current MUST Drug Test – no lapse
Current MUST 18 Safety Modules – no lapse
First Aid certification – classroom training
OSHA 30 – official certification required
Ready to Work Online BE4ALL Quiz
One (1) online quiz will be released in November of this year, covering the SMART BE4ALL program, and is required to be completed prior to January 31 in order to receive your stipend payment. Have all of your other requirements completed before then in order to receive your stipend payment before the new year.
MI Unemployment Benefits
Apply for unemployment benefits online using the Michigan Web Account Manager. MiWAM is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You must create a MiLogin account before you can create or access your MiWAM account. Visit the MiLogin page for more information.
Review the MiWAM Toolkit for Claimants for step by step instructions.
Social Security
Manage benefits and information for The United States Social Security Administration.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
We can all help prevent suicide. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.
Medicaid
This site contains information for individuals looking to apply for benefits, learn more about Michigan Medicaid programs, or find help.
Medicare
Medicare is health insurance for people 65 or older. You’re first eligible to sign up for Medicare 3 months before you turn 65. You may be eligible to get Medicare earlier if you have a disability, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), or ALS.
Alcoholics Anonymous
A.A. has a solution. That isn’t an empty promise. A.A. has been helping alcoholics recover for more than 80 years. A.A.’s program of recovery is built on the simple foundation of one alcoholic sharing with another. If your drinking is out of control, A.A. can help.
Partners in Progress
Partners in Progress is published by the Sheet Metal Industry Labor Management Cooperation Fund. It is a joint publication SMACNA and SMART with a readership of 150,000 throughout the United States and Canada. Its purpose is to better communicate with members of both sponsoring organizations on cooperative efforts, program, products and services aimed at enhancing opportunities for members by meeting the needs of customers.
Narcotics Anonymous
Our name, Narcotics Anonymous, is not meant to imply a focus on any particular drug; NA’s approach makes no distinction between drugs including alcohol. Membership is free, and we have no affiliation with any organizations outside of NA including governments, religions, law enforcement groups, or medical and psychiatric associations. Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.
International Training Institute
The International Training Institute’s mission is to develop, maintain, and distribute training resources for union workers in the sheet metal; heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); industrial/welding; architectural, and building service industry throughout the United States and Canada.
BeneSys
Within this website, you will now have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to commonly requested forms and frequently asked questions regarding your benefit information. As always, please feel free to contact the Benefit Fund Office at (248) 641-4980 or (800) 400-7710
Sheet Metal Local 80 Apprentice Center
On-the-job training and paid classroom learning make our apprenticeship programs the ideal way to learn a trade while earning a salary. Apprentices earn the same hourly wage while they are in school as they would if they were on the job; hence the term “earn while you learn”. While on the job, apprentices work side-by-side with skilled Sheet Metal Worker Journeypersons while employed by one of our 70+ SMACNA contractors. This enables them to gain the practical experience and knowledge necessary to themselves become a Sheet Metal Worker Journeyperson.
Follow the link to learn more.
BCBS of MI
Our site makes it easy for members like you to manage your health care online.
Once you log in to your account at bcbsm.com, you’ll find a personal snapshot of useful plan information.
You’ll enjoy quick access to claims, benefits and more. This important information can help you make better health care decisions.
SMW National Pension Fund
The Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund (“NPF” or “Fund”) is a defined benefit pension fund. As a defined benefit plan, all Fund assets are held in one trust for the benefit of all participants.
SASMI
View benefits offered by SASMI for when you’re not working enough hours, to stay healthy, plan for retirement, if you leave the industry, would like to be reimbursed for a work boots expense, and much more.
Scholarship Program
In general, eligibility for a scholarship under the Fund or Foundation requires that an applicant be an active member of SMART’s former SMWIA, a covered employee or a dependent spouse or child under the age of 25 of a SMART/SMWIA member or covered employee. The applicant must also be a full-time student or be accepted to be a full-time student at an accredited college or university. The scholarship may be used for any field of study by UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS only.
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Sheet Metal | Air | Rail | Transportation
SMART has approximately 700 local unions and councils in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. The International Union, based in Washington, DC and Cleveland, Ohio coordinates the union’s activity on behalf of the membership. The International also provides resources to affiliated local unions for organizing, bargaining, political action and education, while administering members-only benefits through our affiliated funds.
SMACNA Detroit
Along with providing the best services, skills and products available in the sheet metal industry, SMACNA Detroit is primarily involved in labor relations activities on behalf of its members with Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation International Association (SMART) Local Union 80, representing approximately 100 contractors who employ some 900 sheet metal workers throughout Southeastern Michigan.
SMACNA
The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) is an international trade association representing 3,500 signatory contracting firms with more than 100 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. A leader in promoting quality and excellence in the sheet metal and air conditioning industry, SMACNA has offices in Chantilly, Virginia, and in Washington, D.C.
Delta Dental
Member Portal gives you easy, secure online access to your benefits information 24/7. Create an account today.