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The Iron Workers had successfully repelled the open shop demands of American Bridge Company (or "Ambridge"), an arm of the United States Steel Corporation, in 1903. In 1905, after the union's collective bargaining agreement with Ambridge had expired, Ambridge and the other members of the National Erectors Association began refusing to hire ...
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Contains records from Clancy's service as a secretary of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Blacksmiths, Local 104, in Seattle, Washington from 1941–1958. A.F. O'Neill Papers. 1942–1947. 2 linear feet. Contains records from O'Neill's service as business manager of International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders ...
Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing: Vancouver, British Columbia: Canada 17 June 1958: Steel truss cantilever Collapsed during construction due to miscalculation of weight bearing capacity of a temporary arm. 19 killed, 79 injured Rebuilt 8 additional deaths during the course of construction Severn Railway Bridge: Gloucestershire ...
In 1906, the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers' Union in Chicago compiled the number of deaths and injuries and found that 147 of its 1,358 members were killed or seriously hurt in a single year.
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West joined the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers in 1948, while he was working in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1951, he moved to work in Los Angeles, and in 1961 he was elected as the business agent of his local union. In 1971, West was appointed as an international organizer for the ...
The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, California, United States, on October 1, 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers (IW). The explosion started a fire which killed 21 occupants and injured 100 more.