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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.
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 SMART: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) 1887 127,278
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 ...
Joseph Sellers Jr. is a former American labor union leader. Sellers grew up in Philadelphia, and followed his father in becoming a sheet metal worker. In 1980, he joined the Sheet Metal Workers International Association. He was elected to the executive of his local union in 1994, and as its president and business manager in 2002. [1] [2] [3]
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]
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He was educated in public schools in New York. He completed his schooling in Washington, D.C. after his father was elected to national office in the Sheet Metal Workers. Carlough apprenticed as a sheet metal worker with Local Union 28 in New York City in 1949. He graduated from American University with a bachelor's degree in political science ...