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In 1887, Robert Kellerstrass, secretary of the Tin and Cornice Makers Association of Peoria, Illinois—a local sheet metal workers' union—began agitating for the formation of a national sheet metal workers' union. Contacting as many tinsmiths' locals as he could, Kellerstrass arranged for a founding convention to be held in January 1888.
For the Sheet Metal Workers, the process began with two 1999 convention resolutions that empowered the General Executive Council to change the union's name (as long as Sheet Metal Workers remained in the title) and streamlined the merger process so that a GEC-approved agreement to bring in smaller union would not require a convention vote.
Truck drivers; warehouse workers; miscellaneous trades. 2016: Teamsters: United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) 1979 1,300,000 Retail store and distribution employees. 2008: UFCW: United Auto Workers (UAW) 1935 990,000 Full name: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.
Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) Total membership: 134,022. ... Description: Construction-industry sheet metal workers; also shipbuilders, engineers, conductors, welders and more.
Pages in category "Sheet metal workers' trade unions" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... National Union of Sheet Metal Workers ...
The union was founded in July 1920 as the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers with the merger of a number of unions, including the General Union of Tinplate Workers and the National Amalgamated Association of Tin Plate Workers of Great Britain, and fifteen local unions. [2]
National Amalgamated Central, Local & Parastatal Manual Workers' Union; ... Seafarers International Union of North America; Sheet Metal Workers International Association;
Michael Coleman is an American labor union leader. Coleman became a sheet metal worker in Cleveland, and joined the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association in 1985. He held various positions in his local union, before becoming its president and business manager in 2012.