Sheet Metal Workers Local 16 Archives

Strike protests lawless sheet metal employer

Aug 17, 2022

Workers at a Vancouver sheet metal shop have been on strike since late July, bolstered by a strike fund and solidarity from union members across trades.

Union holiday stockings spark angry confrontation

Jan 7, 2022

Sheet Metal Local 16 organizer Darrin Boyce says the company owner’s daughter was furious: The union was giving out Christmas stockings!

A “SMART” business decision

Jan 7, 2022

By signing with SMART Local 16, Clint Ochampaugh gets access to the highest-skilled employees in the industry through its hiring hall.

Union campaign ramps up as 360 Sheet Metal fires supporters

Oct 13, 2021

Sheet Metal Local 16’s relationship with the newly unionized Vancouver firm has gone from bad to worse, with legal charges multiplying.

360 Sheet Metal management: “We do not agree with the law.”

Sep 29, 2021

Negotiations aren’t going well at 360 Sheet Metal in Vancouver. Union leaders say the company is going through the motions in bargaining.

Michael D. Smith, 1953-2021

Aug 11, 2021

A business representative of Sheet Metal Workers Local 16, he was involved in the lengthy CleanPak strike that began in 1998.

Nowhere to go but up: Vancouver sheet metal workers win a union

Jun 30, 2021

Working long hours in unsafe conditions for near minimum wage, a crew of Vancouver sheet metal workers vote to unionize.

Sheet metal worker by day, race car driver on weekends

Oct 12, 2020

Sheet Metal Workers Local 16 member Chris West competes in stock car races nearly every weekend throughout the summer.

Sheet Metal union restructures

Aug 7, 2020

The new SMART Northwest Regional Council covers 9,500 members in five locals in seven states.

Sheet Metal Local 16 members elect first-ever female business agent

Aug 3, 2018

The 2,045 member local has been working to increase union market share and attract more women and minority workers.