SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL # 33

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL #33

27430 Crossroads Parkway

Rossford, Ohio 43460

Telephone: (419) 873-9971

Fax: (419) 873-9978

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The sheet metal trade is extremely varied and it goes back thousands of years. It is one of the few modern trades in which the skilled tradesman take a raw product, interpret the design drawing, makes a shop drawing, develops a pattern, fabricates the item, and, finally, installs it.

 Many modern sheet metal shops use equipment designed for the trade in the 16th century.  A hundred years ago a sheet metal worker would be known as a coppersmith, tinsmith,  cornice-worker, or even a "gutter-snipe". Paul Revere, a  Revolutionary War hero,  owned a copper and tin shop.  The copper sheathing that covered the hull of the U.S.S. Constitution -"old ironsides"- was fabricated and installed by the journeymen and apprentices employed in his sheet metal shop.

The beautiful Statue of Liberty in New York harbor was fabricated by sheet metal craftsmen in France 150 years ago.  It was rebuilt in 1985 by members of Sheet Metal Workers Local # 28. The huge, glistening arch in St. Louis was built by the skilled craftsmen of Sheet Metal Workers Local #36.

The Sheet Metal Workers International Association was formed on January 25, 1888 in Toledo, Ohio by delegates of local unions from Peoria, Kansas City, Omaha, Memphis, Toledo, Dayton and Youngstown.  It was originally designated the "Tin, Sheet Iron, and Cornice-Workers International Association."

Today's sheet metal worker is still competent to design, fabricate, and install the intricate, ornate copper roofs that grace many public buildings. He would also design, fabricate and install the heating ventilating and air conditioning systems that render the buildings comfortable. Sheet metal workers also work in many industrial setting with heavy, welded installations.   They also fabricate and install food service-kitchen equipment systems, material handling systems, as well as interior and exterior architectural applications.

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Link to Sheet Metal Workers: http://smwlu33.org