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In 2006, Journalist Robert Fitch [7] described the Ironworkers Union bombings as perhaps the largest domestic terrorism campaign in American history, and further notes the Los Angeles Times bombing and subsequent trials as marked a precipitous decline in labor union power in the Los Angeles area.
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.
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 ...
At 1,776 feet tall, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. For fourth-generation ironworker, Tom Hickey, One World Trade Center consumed his life. He is one of ...
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James B. Macnamara pled guilty to placing the Los Angeles Times bomb, and his brother John J. Macnamara, secretary-treasurer of the union, pled guilty to planning the bombing of the Llewellyn Iron Works. In all, 40 members of the Iron Workers Union were convicted in the dynamite campaign, including union president Frank Ryan.
Picket lines went up before dawn at Los Angeles International Airport and other locations, and a large rally was held later in the morning downtown at City Hall. SEIU Local 721 said mechanics ...
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers – Local 118 [11] International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers [11] International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers – Local 340 [11] International Brotherhood of Teamsters – Joint Council 7 [11]