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The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers was founded on September 1, 1893. On that day, at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, representatives from the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, which had been organized on October 1, 1880, and the National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, which had been formed in ...
Boilermakers International President Newton B. Jones talks to angry union members outside the federal courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas, after a hearing on July 27.
Two weeks after ousting their president, Boilermakers union executives have sworn in a new one, setting the stage for a showdown as the case goes to federal court next week.. Warren Fairley, who ...
Four former Boilermakers officers made their first appearances in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, on Friday, pleading not guilty to charges that they were part of a $20 million embezzlement ...
After Imerys Talc America in Three Forks, Montana unveiled plans to phase out union workers' retiree insurance, seniority, and overtime clauses and to alter work rules and classifications, Boilermakers Local D-239 union workers did not ratify a new contract. [26]
The boilermaker trade evolved from industrial blacksmithing; in the early nineteenth century, a boilermaker was called a boilersmith. The involvement of boilermakers in the shipbuilding and engineering industries came about because of the changeover from wood to iron as a construction material. It was often easier, and less expensive, to hire a ...
Boilermakers International President Newton B. Jones talks to angry union members outside the federal courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas, after a hearing on July 27, 2023.
Newton B. Jones (born 1953) is an American former labor union leader.. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Jones became a boilermaker in 1971.He joined the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers (IBB), following in the footsteps of his father, Charles W. Jones.