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Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 Training Center

Organized Labor

Richard Schaefer, Apprentice
We’re not like plumbers who pick things up off a shelf. We start out with the raw materials and make something out of it. We need a lot of information. I studied architecture at one point, but in architecture you design something and someone else installs and changes it. Here, we get to design and build things. Architects think in terms of symbols. We take the symbols and make them real.