Ontario Sheet Metal Workers
We are authorized to deliver the in school component of apprenticeship training to registered sheet metal apprentices in ontario.
Ontario sheet metal workers. Lawrence river from a point just east of brockville ontario to the quebec border. Osm stands for ontario sheet metal contractors association. We are an official apprenticeship training provider for the sheet metal trade. Roofers siders deckers and sheet metal workers ordered to be shut down may 4 2020 effective may 4 2020 the ontario government has allowed certain businesses to operate again.
Welcome to sheet metal workers international association local 285 in ontario local 285 was chartered as a local of the sheet metal workers international association smwia in 1957. Osm serves the needs of contractors of all sizes offering educational and training resources for their members. Sheet metal workers work on construction projects or in manufacturing shops. We at local 47 ottawa are proud to represent sheet metal workers roofers sheeters deckers and production fabricators within the eastern part of ontario along the st.
As the second largest chapter of smacna osm contractors follow smacna standards to produce high quality industrial commercial and institutional ici sheet metal work. Sheet metal worker is a compulsory trade in ontario. In ontario the trade is part of the interprovincial red seal program the national standard for the trade across canada. Sheet metal worker is classified as a compulsory trade which means that individuals working in the trade are required by law to be members of the college.
Apprentices as per the ministry of training colleges universities province of ontario earn 40 50 60 70 or 80 of the journeyman amounts. The smwia serves to protect and raise the living standards of over 150 000 skilled men and women employed throughout canada the united states and puerto rico. Journeymen sheet metal workers with current certificate of qualification in the province of ontario earn an hourly wage of 38 93 plus benefits for a total package of 58 68. Construction employers can now perform construction work on the following job sites and businesses.