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Your Metal and Air Specialists for over 120 years

Sheet Metal Workers’ Local #46 was established on April 20, 1899. For over 100 years, we have been providing the highest quality craftsmen to our contractors. Our members are the pre-eminent fabricators and installers of:

  • Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
  • Installation, service and repair of all types of commercial, industrial and residential HVAC systems
  • Green building technologies, LEEDS and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
  • Testing, adjusting, balancing (TAB) and measuring of all types of fluids, processes and mechanical systems
  • Direct digital controls and building automation systems
  • Architectural metal work including metal roofing and all forms of interior and exterior metal systems
  • Kitchen equipment, lockers, partitions, industrial ventilation, and material handling systems
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Our Mission

Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 46 is committed to providing the highest quality craftsworkers in the manufacturing of residential, commercial, and industrial duct systems.

To provide the highest quality training for apprentices and journeypersons within our jurisdiction.

Through education and practical, job-related training, provide our contractors with a productive, responsible, and skilled workforce that will take our industry confidently into the future.

Provide quality craftsmanship through cooperative efforts involving labor management and state-certified apprenticeship training programs.

To establish and maintain desirable working conditions and thus provide for our members and their family’s comfort, happiness, and security to which every member is entitled in return for his labor.

HISTORY

The concept of trade unions began early in the Industrial Revolution. More and more people left farming as an occupation and began to work for employers, often in appalling conditions and for very low wages. The labor movement arose as an outgrowth of the disparity between the power of employers and the powerlessness of individual employees.