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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.
Professional association for registered nurses. ANA: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 1893 160,000 [citation needed] Non-performing entertainment workers in Theater, Motion Picture & Television, & Trade Shows IATSE: International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (IASMARTW) 1888 148,806 ...
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 Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers; S. Sheet Metal Workers' International Association; Swedish Sheet Metal Workers' Union
[36] The depression of 1915 forced sizeable wage decreases on the union. The union, which had once organized nearly every tin and sheet metal plant in the country, now could count less than one-fifth under contract. Once the largest affiliate of the AFL, now the AA numbered a mere 6,500 members. [37]
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers was founded on September 1, 1893. On that day, at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, representatives from the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, which had been organized on October 1, 1880, and the National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, which had been formed in ...
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.