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  2. Jake West (unionist) - Wikipedia

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    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 union, serving until 1983 when he was elected as an international vice-president, and also as president of the Iron Workers District Council in California. [1] [2]

  3. International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental ...

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    Iron work is a skilled craft that dates back to the late 19th century and is a result of the rapid rise in the use of modern steel in iron bridges and skyscrapers. [4] It was and is also an exceptionally dangerous job; hundreds of iron workers fell to their death every year in the late years of the nineteenth century.

  4. Reese J. Llewellyn - Wikipedia

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    Reese James Llewellyn (30 August 1862 – 15 December 1936) was a Welsh-American businessman. He was the co-founder and president of Llewellyn Iron Works, a company based in Los Angeles, which provided iron works and steel for the construction of buildings in Southern California, the Western United States, Mexico, and South America.

  5. Llewellyn Iron Works - Wikipedia

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    Llewellyn Iron Works advertisement 1904 Llewellyn Iron Works and American System of Reinforcing, Torrance, California 1918. Llewellyn Iron Works was a foundry in 19th- and 20th-century Los Angeles and Torrance, California, United States.

  6. Under the agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, roughly 10,000 workers will receive four "cost of living” pay increases totaling at least 10% and as much ...

  7. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    A dynamite bomb destroyed a portion of the Llewellyn Iron works in Los Angeles, where a strike was in progress. In April 1911 James B. McNamara and his older brother John F. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, were charged with the two crimes. James McNamara pleaded guilty to ...

  8. Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust

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    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.

  9. Los Angeles Times bombing - Wikipedia

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    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.