They employed 142,682 workers and generated $19.3 billion in shipments in 2000.
Sheet metal workers held approximately 205,000 jobs in 2002. Roughly 66 percent were employed in the construction industry, half of whom worked for plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contractors.
Sheet Metal Workers' International Association was created in 1888.
William Neubecker has written: 'Home instruction for sheet metal workers' -- subject(s): Sheet-metal work 'Sheet-metal work' -- subject(s): Sheet-metal work 'Automobiles & Sheet Metal Boats' 'Sheet-metal work' -- subject(s): Sheet-metal work 'Home instruction for sheet metal workers' -- subject(s): Sheet-metal work 'Sheet-metal work' -- subject(s): Sheet-metal work 'Short patterns, kinks and quick methods for sheet metal workers, time, labor and material saving procedure' -- subject(s): Sheet-metal work 'Antique automobile body construction and restoration' -- subject(s): Automobiles, Bodies, Collectors and collecting
In the late 1990s, 4,201 companies were involved in the U.S. sheet metal work industry.
41,600
31.xx for a journeyman
apprenticeship, including four or five years of hands-on training at job sites and at least 144 hours per year of classroom education.
Sheetmetal Journeymen payscale is $20.85.
Cliff Kuhn has written: 'Generations of sheet metal craftsmanship' -- subject(s): Central Georgia Sheet Metal Contractors Association, Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, Sheet Metal Workers' International Association. Local no.85 'Contesting the new South order' -- subject(s): Case studies, Cotton manufacture, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915, History, Industrial relations, Strikes and lockouts
Stamping out shapes from sheet metal is a common practise in such businesses as the car industry, and in many other manufacturing processes.
Leroy J. Blinn has written: 'A practical workshop companion for tin, sheet iron and copper plate workers' -- subject(s): Sheet-metal work, Workshop recipes, Metal work, Metal-work
L. G. Guy has written: 'How and when we began' -- subject(s): History, Labor unions, Metal-workers, National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers