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Greg Hynes is a fifth-generation railroader born in Winslow, Ariz., hiring out with Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1995. He transferred to Phoenix, Ariz., in 1997.

Hynes was elected local legislative representative of Local 1081 at Glendale, Ariz., in 2003. He was elected Arizona assistant state legislative director in 2004, was elevated to Arizona state legislative director in 2009 and was re-elected to that office in 2011.

He served on the Executive Council of the Arizona State AFL-CIO and held the positions of Finance Committee chairman and Legislative Committee chairman.

Hynes was appointed the first chairperson of the UTU Rail Safety Task Force in 2009 and served in that capacity until being elected SMART Transportation Division alternate national legislative director at the Transportation Division’s 2014 convention.

He was elected national legislative director at the Second SMART TD Convention on August 11, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nev.

He had the honor of serving on the SMART Transportation Division National Safety Team that assists the National Transportation Safety Board with accident investigations, from 2007 to 2014. In 2014, he was appointed to the Federal Railroad Administration’s Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC), which develops new railroad regulatory standards. Hynes also represents SMART TD on the Switching Operations Fatalities Analysis (SOFA) working group and in October 2018 was named by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to the federal DOT’s Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking.

Jared Cassity was elected by his peers in 2019 and currently serves as the Alternate National Legislative Director for the SMART Transportation Division, which is comprised of approximately 125,000 active and retired members who work in a variety of different crafts in the transportation industry. These crafts include employees on every Class I railroad, Amtrak, many shortline railroads, bus and mass transit employees, and airport personnel.

In addition to his elected roles, Cassity has also been appointed as the Union’s Chief of Safety, serves as the Director for the SMART TD National Safety Team (which assists the NTSB in major rail-related accident investigations), is SMART TD’s voting member on the Federal Railroad Administration’s C3RS Steering Committee, and is the first labor member to ever be appointed to the Transportation Security Administration’s Surface Transportation Safety Advisory Committee.

Prior to being elected an international officer, Cassity held various local and state level positions (both protective and legislative) within the Union and was a certified conductor and locomotive engineer for CSX Transportation in Russell, KY, regularly serving the coal fields of eastern Kentucky and southwestern West Virginia. His seniority date is September of 2005.

Jared works in the Union’s National Legislative Office in Washington, DC, and currently resides in Manassas, VA, with his wife, Mikki, and his two daughters Mykayla and Mykenna.