SMART affiliate · Saint John, New Brunswick
Sheet Metal Workers' Local 437 trains, dispatches and represents the skilled tradespeople behind the commercial and industrial builds across New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
367
Members at work
$47.58
Journeyperson package
NB · PEI
Jurisdiction
1963
Chartered
367 members on the tools across the region (2026 Q1 SMART Canada employment survey). Journeyperson package about $47.58 an hour. Business Manager Roland Furlong · serving New Brunswick & P.E.I.
Latest
Ottawa is putting more than $430 million over five years into the Union Training and Innovation Program, funding union training facilities, equipment and new ways to bring apprentices through to certification.
Read moreThe federal government has committed $2 billion in new trades-training funding for the provinces and territories, targeting 80,000 to 100,000 new Red Seal workers over five years.
Read moreThe 50th CCSMWR Convention and Apprenticeship Competition wrapped in Edmonton this July, and Local 437's own Rodeo Richard Michaud (Beaulieu Mechanical) took home the Sheet Metal Congeniality award. Congratulations to every competitor.
Read moreWho we are
Chartered in Saint John on 26 July 1963, Local 437 is the SMART local for sheet metal workers and roofers in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Our members install and service HVAC systems, build architectural metal and cladding, weld, lay sheeting and decking, and put flat roofs on commercial and industrial buildings in both provinces.
More about Local 437
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Resources
Two trades under one hall: the sheet metal and roofing agreements Local 437 holds in New Brunswick and P.E.I., with the wage packages, pension and health & welfare plans that come with them.
Member services
Coverage for you and your family while you work under a Local 437 agreement: prescriptions, dental, vision, life and disability, now with Enriched Academy financial coaching.
Learn moreContractors pay into your pension for every hour you work in New Brunswick or P.E.I. The plan is run jointly by members and employers, and it follows you from job to job.
Learn moreSheet metal is a Red Seal trade, paid on-the-job training plus in-school technical blocks through NB Apprenticeship, with wage step-ups as you go.
Learn morePrivate support through SMART for stress, addiction, money or family trouble. Call the Saint John hall and it stays between you and the local.
Learn moreThe work
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Member help
Dispatch is only part of the job. Questions about your hours, benefits or pension, trouble on a site anywhere in New Brunswick or P.E.I., or just needing someone in your corner: the business manager and business representative at the Saint John hall answer to you.
Through SMART, members and their families also get confidential mental-health and wellness support for stress, addiction, money worries and pressure at home. Looking after yourself is part of looking after the crew, and a call to the hall never goes back to your employer.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev (CC BY 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons
