Category: Members Journal
GEM Inc. becomes signatory to Local 33
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHEET METAL WORKERS AVAILABLE IN NORTHWEST OHIO GEM Inc. has a long history of working jointly with trade unions to make sure customers receive the quality, safety and return on investment they deserve. It recently added to this history by becoming a sig [...]
Veterans in first SMART Heroes class graduate apprenticeship
Army veteran and SMART Heroes graduate Richard Quintana. Two members of the first class of SMART Heroes — the unionized sheet metal industry’s bridge from military life to a civilian career in sheet metal, welding and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) — are set [...]
SM Local 67 hosts holiday fishing tournament
SMART SM Local 67 (San Antonio and Austin, Texas) was able to team up with the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance, Texas Union Roofing, former NFL running back Priest Holmes, the San Antonio Building Trades and Humana for a festive fishing event. Fish were caught, people were fed and [...]
SMART Local 33 member volunteers build tiny house village
The concept of the tiny house village is to build new affordable housing and revitalize the local area. This project began as an idea sprung from the local church across the street. Local 33 members installed two Mini-Split Units in two houses that were close to completion. J [...]
SM Local 33 lends support to Toledo soup kitchen
Local 33 members were at the Helping Hands soup kitchen in Toledo, Ohio, where they volunteered to remove an old stove from the basement and installed a new one in its place. Helping Hands, a ministry of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Toledo, serves low-income and home [...]
SM Local 73 lends warmth to Chicago residents
To help get through the cold winter, low-income homeowners in Chicago and Chicago Heights received free furnace and boiler tune-ups to keep them safe and warm. This initiative was the result of a partnership between Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago, SM Local 73 and SMACNA Gr [...]
SM Local 435 hosts largest-ever cornhole tournament
On February 5, SMART SM Local 435 (Jacksonville, Fla.) hosted its seventh annual Voluntary Death Benefit Fund Cornhole Tournament, where the local sold raffle tickets for an Academy Sports + Outdoors gift card to support the voluntary death benefit fund. The tournament — whic [...]
SM Local 9 SMART MAP Eliminates Stigma Around Mental Health
Andy Gilliland, training coordinator at Sheet Metal Workers Local 9 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, knows he can’t save them all. But it doesn’t stop him from trying. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), construction workers di [...]