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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.
Now representing 75 percent of the US and Canada's skilled sheet metal work force, or about 26,000 members in 1924, the IA was ready to adopt what one member called a "more up-to-date, progressive name" – The Sheet Metal Workers' International Association.
International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (IASMARTW) 1888 148,806 SMART: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) 1887 127,278 Construction-industry painters, glaziers, drywall finishers, sign & display workers. 2020: IUPAT
The last independent union for sheet metal workers, the Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers' Society, finally merged into the union in 1973. [ 4 ] The union approved an offer to join the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers ' Engineering Section in 1979, [ 1 ] but this did not go ahead and instead, in 1983, it merged into the ...
National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers; S. Sheet Metal Workers' International Association; Swedish Sheet Metal Workers' Union
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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.