{"id":22127,"date":"2013-10-14T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=22127"},"modified":"2013-10-14T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T14:15:46","slug":"women-taking-advantage-of-career-in-unionized-sheet-metal-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/women-taking-advantage-of-career-in-unionized-sheet-metal-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Taking Advantage of Career In Unionized Sheet Metal Industry","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cleveland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-22129\" style=\"margin: 4px;border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"cleveland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cleveland-300x187.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>Cleveland is experiencing a building boom and bringing with it, some good paying jobs.\u00a0\u00a0WOIO Action News has found one woman who is proving she can do the work too.\u00a0 She is taking advantage of a free apprenticeship program offered by\u00a0Sheet Metal Workers Local 33.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think the hardest part is the sizes and weights of the material that you work with because as a woman you&#8217;re not as strong as a man so sometimes it can be a bit challenging to try and lift something up and carry it up a ladder and try and install it over your head,&#8221; said Fatima Ware.<br \/>\nFatima is three years into the five year program and what&#8217;s her motivation?\u00a0 &#8220;To be better, to try to be better than the men. . .&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.19actionnews.com\/story\/23670041\/cleveand-buidling-boom\"><strong>Click here for more coverage from WOIO Action News in Cleveland<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland is experiencing a building boom and bringing with it, some good paying jobs.\u00a0\u00a0WOIO Action News has found one woman who is proving she can do the work too.\u00a0 She is taking advantage of a free apprenticeship program offered by\u00a0Sheet Metal Workers Local 33. &#8220;I think the hardest part is the sizes and weights of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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