We are the Metal Trades
Serving America’s metal trades workers for more than a century
Metal Trades Mobile
The mobile source for up-to-date news and information from the Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO. This app contains news feeds and information of interest to union members. It links to our social media pages and our photos. Keeps you apprised of upcoming events and allows our users to identify and contact their members of Congress. We will also alert you to breaking news and important information when you allow “push notifications.”
Maritime Jobs Rally Live from Loraine, OH
Press Conference Webcast Wed, March 9, 12pm
Bartlett Maritime Corporation and its Bartlett Maritime Plan™ Industry Team, including the Metal Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, Goldman Sachs, Fincantieri Marine Group, Squire Patton Boggs and the Mayors of Lorain and Lordstown, OH, will host a Panel Discussion and Press Conference entitled, “Resolving the Submarine Maintenance Crisis: Restoring National Security,” Wednesday, March 9, 2022, at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC 20041. The Panel Discussion and Press Conference will be live streamed here.
We are a coalition of 17 National and International Labor Unions
We work in Private and Public Shipyards in the U.S. and Canada
Metal Trades workers and their skills are displayed each day in government and private shipyards throughout the United States and Canada. Metal Trades members can be found building ferries or repairing Coast Guard ice breakers in Victoria, BC, Vancouver Island, Seattle, WA or Portland, OR,. Metal Trades workers are busy building the latest class of Navy warships in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, new submarines in Groton, CT. or double hulled tankers in Philadelphia, PA. In fact, this patriotic workforce may be found working anywhere, at any time, around the world performing and fulfilling their duty whenever their skills are required by either the United States Navy or the Fleet of the Canadian Royal Navy.
We work in our nation's nuclear facilities and petrochemical plants
Metal Trades workers are an essential part of a specialized team of professionals that produce and maintain the systems and processes needed to develop, build, dismantle, inspect, maintain and cleanup America’s nuclear arsenal. They work at Department of Energy sites around the country including Hanford, Pantex, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, Y-12, Fernald, and other DOE owned nuclear facilities.
National Security
In addition to shipbuilding and repair, Metal Trades workers fabricate and repair aircraft, vehicles, weapons systems, and other equipment in federal facilities and Department of Defense (DoD) facilities across the country. Metal Trades workers make up a large part of DoD’s more than 700,000-person workforce.
Heavy Manufacturing and Other Trades
Many of the members of the Metal Trades work at government installations, from the National Bureau of Standards to the National Institutes of Health to military sites and dockyards with the Navy and Coast Guard. They also perform utility work for both private and public industries.
THE UNIONS OF
THE METAL TRADES
International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union
Office and Professional Employees International Union
International Union of Operating Engineers
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association of the United States and Canada
Sheet Metal Workers International Association
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada
Laborers International Union of North America
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
International Chemical Workers Union
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Service Employees International Union
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Where we are
815 Black Lives Matter Plaza, NW
Washington, DC 20006
E: pressreleases@metaltrades.org
P: 202-508-3705
F: 202-508-3706
Contact the Staff
James Hart | President
Lisa Johnson | Operations Director
Dale Troll | MTD General Rep
Benjamin Heurung | MTD General Rep
CONTACT US
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