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The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers is a union in the United States and Canada, which represents, trains and protects [2] primarily construction workers, as well as shipbuilding and metal fabrication employees.
The puddlers in the union's ironworker locals attempted to secede in 1907. Angered at the union's decline and the way national leaders ignored their interests, the puddlers had retained membership throughout the battles with Carnegie and U.S. Steel. Adopting their old Sons of Vulcan name, about 1,250 of the AA's 2,250 puddlers left the union.
In 1859, twelve local unions came together to form a national organization in the United States, [1] and the Iron Molders' Union was established at a convention held in Philadelphia on July 5. The first national convention was attended by 35 delegates, representing local iron molders organizations located throughout the Northeast and as far ...
The union attempted to organize workers in the tin industry, but a sudden wave of industry consolidations left the union facing the gigantic U.S. Steel corporation. In the U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901, the union struck the fledgling company and won nearly all its demands. But the union's executive board wanted more and rejected the ...
Companies consolidated into American Bridge Company; Company name Headquarters 1 Keystone Bridge Company: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 2 Wrought Iron Bridge Company: Canton, Ohio
The Sons of Vulcan was an American labor union which existed from 1858 until 1876. The union recruited puddlers, skilled craftsmen who manipulated pig iron to create steel.In the 1870s, it was the strongest union in the United States.
The Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust (IMPACT) is a joint, labor-management, non-profit trust formed under Section 302(c) (9) of Labor-Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act which includes contributing Local Unions of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers and their signatory contractors.
U.S. Steel idled AA mills whenever possible, breaking the union through attrition. [10] Local AA unions often assisted in their own destruction. To make up for lower wages, AA members often worked overtime at regular pay rates or violated restrictions on speed-ups—in violation of their own union contracts.