Can local 638 A steamfitters and local 28 sheet metal workers perform the same work?

Answer 1

Whether they can do each others work is one thing....It is by no means allowed..No one does a steamfitters work..Not even so much as moving a piece of their pipe..I'm sure other trades feel the same way! Hope I helped ! Fitter638!!!

I Agree but to expand alil.

Simply - No.

Can an carpenter do an electricians work? Again simply no.

Each tradesmen is trained in their particular line of work.

There are some work that requires or at least used to have multiple trade, but for the most part that has died out when in the earlier years each trade struggled to claim work, most work that really belonged to one tradesmen and not a mix of two or three.

Examples: When glue on tile came into play, because the use of a trowel, you had a masonry put the glue on the back of the tile and a carpenter install the tile. Truly it belonged to the carpenter which it does now. For ceilings Lathers install the black iron but used to also install the main runners of a ceiling system then the carpenters would come behind to install tile. The installation of the bars went to the carpenters.

With out this type of separation of tradesmen it would have the effect to have the economy plunder as we know it today.