title: Metal Trades Department, AFL–CIO
text: # Metal Trades Department, AFL–CIO
  
  Metal Trades Department of the AFL-CIO is a trade department of the AFL–CIO. It was founded June 15, 1908.
  
  ## Presidents
  
      1908: James O'Connell
      1935: John P. Frey
      1951: James A. Brownlow
      1962: B. A. Gritta
      1969: Maywood Boggs
      1971: Paul Burnsky
      1994: John Meese
      2002: Ronald Ault
      2016: James Hart
  