07.09.09
Kyle George, Local 48, Oklahoma City, Wins District Council Apprentice Competition.
A proud day for the District Council's apprentices who worked extra hours to get to the top of the steel. Not an easy task when you have to go to school at night while working full time, but doing well in the contest gives apprentices an extra edge.
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02.06.09
Ironworkers union focused on building long-term profitability for workers—and for construction industry employers who hire them
In his inaugural address, President Barrack Obama expressed commitment to reinvest in the U.S. infrastructure rebuilding roads and bridges as his administration moves to redirect the economy. To a struggling construction industry this is very good news indeed. The Ironworkers Union and its members are on the same page with the new president’s vision—emphasizing productivity, performance and profitability to insure their members, and their industry employers survive and thrive in the tough economic times at hand.
 PHOTO: Union ironworkers erected the record-setting steel that spans the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
AUSTIN, TEXAS – With the advent of IMPACT—the Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust—the Iron Workers Union launched a robust and far-reaching campaign designed to benefit both business and labor. IMPACT’s innovative initiative aims at building a strategic, modern-day alliance between union workers and their employers while dissolving employers’ historic objections to hiring union.
To seal the deal, IMPACT, local unions and signatory employers steadily focus on amping up market share for both sides. To do so they cultivate bilaterally beneficial partnerships with signatory contractors while building a new army of top-notch young ironworkers trained to be the best at constructing the complex buildings, bridges, skyscrapers and civic centers of the future. Click to read full story.
04.04.08
Dallas-Based Bosworth Steel Erectors, Inc. wins national award for work on new Nationals Ballpark in D.C.
 PHOTO: Bosworth Steel Erectors, Inc. of Dallas erected the steel structure for the new, $611 million plus Nationals Ballpark in Washington, D.C. The stadium complex opened officially last weekend.
Washington, D.C.— It has been a very, very good spring for John Bosworth and Bosworth Steel Erectors, Inc., the steel erection company he heads. Innovators in steel construction and modification, Bosworth Steel Erectors just won class III project of the year honors at the recent SEAA Convention (Steel Erectors Association of America, (www.seaa.net) for steel erection on the new Nationals Ballpark in Washington, D.C. Their work on Nationals Stadium also earned Bosworth Steel project leaders Jim Avery, David Sweeney and Kevin Ritchey 2008 Craftsmanship Awards from the prestigious Washington Building Congress (www.wbcnet.org ) awarded last week in D.C.
The 41,888-seat stadium is the new home park for the Major League baseball team, the Washington Nationals (www.nationals.mlb.com) and the centerpiece of D.C.’s massive, new Ballpark District—a billion dollar, multi-use riverfront development little more than a mile away from the U.S. Capitol. The ballpark opened officially March 30 with the home team winning the season opener 3-2 against the Atlanta Braves. Click to read full story.
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