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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 Federated Ironworkers' Assistants' Association of Australia was formed on 25 September 1908 at a meeting held at the Sydney Trades Hall, attended by delegates from several small state-based unions from New South Wales and Victoria, including the Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants' Union and the Amalgamated Society of Ironworkers' Assistants of Victoria.
Joseph J. Hunt (born 1942) is an American former labor union leader.. Born in St. Louis, Hunt followed his father and grandfather in becoming an ironworker, and joining the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers.
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.
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.
Jake West (May 29, 1928 – April 5, 2007) was an American labor union leader, who was convicted of embezzlement. West joined the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers in 1948, while he was working in Charleston, West Virginia.
Eric M. Dean is an American labor union leader. Born in Chicago, Dean joined the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers in 1980, when he undertook an apprenticeship as an ironworker. In 1989, he became an officer of his local union, and in 1999 he began working as a general organizer for the ...
In contrast to the earlier union, the Associated also sought to unionise workers in the rapidly growing steelworks, and it had particular success in attracting contractors to join. [2] In 1891, the Malleable Ironworkers was wound up, and its few remaining members transferred to the Associated, with membership reaching 10,000 in 1892.