Sheet Metal Workers Union

The Sheet Metal Workers International Association is a trade union of skilled metal workers who perform architectural sheet metal work, fabricate and install heating and air conditioning work, shipbuilding, appliance construction, heater and boiler construction, precision and specialty parts manufacture, and a variety of other jobs involving sheet metal.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's June 30, 2011 filing. independent expenditures updated daily.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $3,613,556
    Total Spent:
    $3,426,850
    Cash on Hand:
    $519,272
    Debts:
    $0

  • Independent Expenditures

    money spent supporting or opposing a candidate
    Candidate Support/Oppose Total Spent
    Barack Obama
    Support
    		 $7,500

Standardized Donation Information

covers roughly through Q4 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

    Employee Color Block
    Individuals
    PAC Color Block
    PAC
    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

    Employee Color Block
    Individuals
    PAC Color Block
    PAC
    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for Sheet Metal Workers Union Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$70,000 Spent
Information

Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Sheet Metal Workers Union

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Sheet Metal Workers Union $70,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Energy & Nuclear Power,
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Homeland Security,
    • Health Issues,
    • Transportation,
    • Aviation, Airlines & Airports,
    • Defense,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Government Issues
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.2017 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.2055 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.6079 Repeal of Obamacare Act
    H.R.7 Sportfishing and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2012
    H.R.658 FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011
    H.R.970 Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2011
    H.R.4281 Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012
    H.R.4310 Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
    H.R.4348 Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Act of 2012
    H.R.5019 Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010
View all lobbying data for Sheet Metal Workers Union Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 11 dockets
Information

All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Sheet Metal Workers Union" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Advisory Committees

1 person on 1 committee
Information

Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Sheet Metal Workers Union" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Transportation 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Sheet Metal Workers Union