SMART Transportation Division
Pedro (Pete) Lara Jr has an extensive background in public service and union leadership, with notable roles at SMART Transportation Division since January 2012, including Delegate and Treasurer, managing finances for five divisions with 1,500 members. As a Licensed Insurance Representative at the United Transportation Union Insurance Association, Pedro provides opportunities for insurance coverage while maintaining records. With over three decades of experience at LA County Metropolitan Transit Authority as a Bus Operator and briefly as an Acting Supervisor, skills in public transportation are evident. Pedro also has a history of volunteerism as a head coach in various sports from July 1992 to July 2017 and contributed as a volunteer with the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Additional expertise includes service as an Alternate Legislative Representative and Local Trustee at SMART Union and recent training at Wendelstedt Umpiring School, earning an Umpire Certificate.
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SMART Transportation Division
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We are the SMART Transportation Division, an AFL-CIO affiliate headquartered near Cleveland, Ohio. We are a broad-based, transportation labor union representing about 125,000 active and retired railroad, bus, mass transit and airline workers in the United States. With offices in Cleveland and Washington, D.C., the SMART TD is the largest railroad operating union in North America, with more than 500 locals. The SMART TD (formerly UTU) represents employees on every Class I railroad, as well as employees on many regional and shortline railroads. It also represents bus and mass transit employees on approximately 45 bus and transit systems and has recently grown to include airline pilots, dispatchers and other airport personnel. Disclaimer: SMART-TD reserves the right to remove any comments deemed inappropriate, inflammatory, untruthful, or for any other reason. SMART-TD also reserves the right to ban any commenters for inappropriate comments or for any other reason deemed necessary by SMART-TD. SMART-TD is in no way responsible for the comments posted on this page and the views expressed in the comments are those of the commenters.