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Oklahoma instructor promoted to national role in sheet metal union

Local 124’s training coordinator chosen to instruct trainers, build curriculum Trent London, a second-generation sheet metal worker and longtime training coordinator at Sheet Metal Workers Local 124, in Oklahoma City,…

ICB conference photo with Vince Alvarado

June 28, 2021

Vince Alvarado leads Local 49 in New Mexico with vision, experience

Four-term business manager and financial recording secretary Vince Alvarado not only wears many hats at the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART) workers Local 49 in…

June 7, 2021

Apprentice owes life to CPR, instructors at Local 20

When first-year apprentice John Walker returned to Sheet Metal Workers Local 20’s Indianapolis training center after lunch in January, he didn’t feel well — his legs were shaking, he was…

March 24, 2021

Minnesota sheet metal workers create opportunities with new learning lab

The pandemic didn’t slow down progress at Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Beginning in March 2020, construction began on the training center’s new 3,700-square-foot commercial…

March 19, 2021

Colorado Springs SMART Heroes graduates seventh class

Soon-to-be military veterans prepare for careers after service SMART Heroes graduated six members of the United States military from its program Monday, Feb. 22 at its Colorado location, Sheet Metal…

March 17, 2021

STEPS Challenge winners get healthy, lose weight

Members of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) from across the country committed to their health and showed team spirit during the Fall STEPS Challenge,…

March 16, 2021

Local 19 team creates SMART19 Portable Modular Air Pressurization Filter Box

What do you do when a historic pandemic forces the entire country to shut down? If you are a team of unionized sheet metal workers at Sheet Metal Workers Local…

March 11, 2021

New Jersey’s Local 27 unveils new testing, adjusting, balancing lab

Members of Sheet Metal Workers Local 27 in central and southern New Jersey will now have access to their own testing, adjusting and balancing (TAB) lab, the 23rd such lab…

December 8, 2020

Tale of two cities: reopening sheet metal training centers in 2020

There are more than 140 union sheet metal training centers in the United States and Canada, and they vary in size — from city to rural, a few dozen apprentices…

September 28, 2020

NEMIC recognizes Locals 105, 88 with industry awards

This summer, the National Energy Management Institute Committee (NEMIC) announced its annual Industry Awards, which recognize a local, training center, Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association chapter and…