Our Mission

To provide our signatory contractors with a highly skilled workforce. To unify our contractors and members working together and maintaining safety, profitability, and quality to the highest standards.

How Secure is Your Future?

Have you ever lost your job because your Employer:

Lost a major customer
Laid you off to hire someone else
Laid you off because you filed a compensation claim
Declared bankruptcy
Fired you for submitting travel or gas receipts
Fired you because of a work refusal because you had a safety concern
Other unjustified reason

If You Lose Your Job, Will Your Employer?

Help you find another job
Guarantee your wage at your next job
Continue your health insurance
Pay you weekly benefits if you get hurt or sick
Ensure that you will be given equal opportunity to be hired from a large group of employers in the area

Working on a tubular metal component

Worker wearing a welding helmet

Enough is Enough

Have you been treated unfairly?

Mistakes on your paycheque
Lost wages due to bankruptcy
Arguments over hours worked
Unfair disbursement of overtime hours

Irregular starting and quitting times
Refusal to pay travel expenses
Failure to sign you as an apprentice
Fired without just cause

Local 562 Sheet Metal Worker's International Union and You

You will be treated fairly
You will have a voice
You do not have to stand alone
You have a network of contractors you can be hired by
Opportunity to work for other local unions through our local to local referral system
All Sheet Metal Worker Unions have negotiated contracts and procedures (enforceable in Federal Court if necessary) to handle all grievance s and disputes
Training Courses - First Aid, CPR, Forktruck, Broderson and Welding, and more. All government regulated safety courses.

Myths About the Union

The Union does not want us they just want the Company.

It does not benefit us to organize the company and cut the employees loose. The union has long understood that the only way we can ensure decent wages and working conditions for all sheet metal workers, is to manage the supply of skilled manpower.

If the Union comes in, they will get rid of us and bring in their own people.

Again, this will not benefit us in any way. We want you to become union members and stay employed with your current employer.

If I get laid off in the Union, I have to sit on the out of work list and starve.

SMWIA Members have more employment opportunities that non members. SMWIA Members have the opportunity to work for all union contractors. SMWIA Members also have the option of traveling to other local unions for work, through our local to local referral system.

The Company will not be able to compete.

The SMWIA is committed to organizing all Sheet Metal workers in the province of Ontario. The SMWIA is currently working on Market recovery programs to keep our contractors competitive in today's market. By sticking together as Sheet Metal Workers, and demanding respectable wages and working conditions, we can ensure that all contractors are bidding work on a level playing field.

Contact James at 519-502-0842 for a confidential call or to set up a meeting.

Today - make the right choice for you and your family! Contact the Marketing Department at Local 562 at 519-744-1311 or 1-800-554-5575 - All calls are private and confidential