Alaska Ironworkers

10/15/2025

We are on the right path.....

10/07/2025

FYI.....

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer toured the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center last week on what the labor secretary called her 50-state tour and met with

10/01/2025

This Day in Labor History
OCTOBER 1
1931 – The George Washington Bridge officially opens, spanning the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York. Thirteen workers died during the four-year construction project for what at the time was the longest main span in the world.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened as the first toll superhighway in the United States. It was built in most part by workers hired through the state’s Re-Employment offices.
1975 – Some 200 Pressmen begin what is to become a two-year strike at the Washington Post.
1994 – The National Hockey League team owners began a lockout of the players that lasted 103 days.

09/26/2025

SEPTEMBER 26
1903 – The Old 97, a Southern Railway train officially known as the Fast Mail, derails near Danville, Va., killing engineer Joseph “Steve” Broady and 10 other railroad and postal workers. Many believe Broady had been ordered to speed to make up for lost time. The Wreck of the Old 97 inspired balladeers; a 1924 recording is sometimes cited as the first million-selling country music record.
1908 – The first production Ford Model T leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Mich. It was the first car ever manufactured on an assembly line, with interchangeable parts. The auto industry was to become a major U.S. employer, accounting for as many as one of every eight to 10 jobs in the country.

09/23/2025

FYI

A consortium led by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company decided to withdraw from a proposed $18.7 billion takeover of Santos.

09/22/2025

EVERY WORKER NEEDS A UNION AND A MAJORITY AGREES
The latest annual poll by the Gallup organization found 68% of American adults approve of labor unions, roughly similar to its findings of 70% in 2024, 67% in 2023, and 71% in 2022.
Gallup says the results show union approval has been holding steady for the last five years, following a steady rebound over the previous decade from a historic low in 2009 of 48%.
You have to go back to the late 1950s and early 1960s to find similar recent levels of good will toward organized labor. Peak approval was reached in 1953 and 1958 at 75%.
Gallup has been asking the question “Do you approve or disapprove of labor unions?” since 1936.

09/21/2025

TODAY IN LABOR HISTORY
SEPTEMBER 21
1896 – Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners’ strike.
1912 – Mother Jones leads a march of miners’ children through the streets of Charleston, W. Va.
1982 – National Football League Players Association members begin what is to become a 57-day strike, their first regular-season walkout ever.
1991 – Members of five unions at the Frontier Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas begin what was to become the longest successful hotel strike in U.S. history. All 550 workers honored the picket line for the entirety of the six-year, four-month, 10-day fight against management’s insistence on cutting wages and eliminating pensions.
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09/18/2025

FYI......

The strategic collaboration will feature steel supply, LNG offtake and an investment in the project.

09/16/2025

An interesting article.......

The annual conference of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association hailed rapid industry changes that promise to boost production for a decade.

09/13/2025

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is not a political message. This is a report on comments made by a high official in the U.S. government that is relevant to our industry. This has information of interest to both the contractors and the work crews. I have no other comment. Again, I report the news, I don’t make the news. Thank you.)
President Donald Trump‘s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, appeared on CNBC and echoed the language used by the President when speaking about tariffs and the building of new factories in the United States.
Lutnick said: “Now you’re gonna see factories getting built in America at a scale that you’ve never seen before. Okay, more than 10 trillion dollars of factory build coming. So there’s a huge amount of construction jobs.”
Speaking about those construction jobs on Newsmax, Lutnick foretold of a situation similar to money falling from trees, saying “to be a construction worker in America, you're going to be good-looking, because everybody's going to try to hire you. Those construction workers are jobs, jobs, jobs."
He added: “I would say the first quarter of next year will be the best quarter of construction jobs this country has ever seen, and that’s gonna roll all the way through ’26. So I think you’re gonna see GDP growth next year over 4%.”

09/12/2025

Today in Labor History:
SEPTEMBER 12
1932 – Jobless workers march on grocery stores and seize food in Toledo, Ohio.
1934 – National Guardsmen fire on “sullen and rebellious” strikers at the Woonsocket (Rhode Island) Rayon plant, killing one and injuring three others. A correspondent said the crowd of about 2,000 “went completely wild with rage.” As word spread, 6,000 more workers arrived at the scene and the city was put under military rule. The governor declared that “there is a Communist uprising and not a textile strike” in the state.
1940 – A total of 49 people are killed, 200 injured, in an explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, N.J.
1998 – New York City’s Union Square, the site of the first Labor Day in 1882, is officially named a national historic landmark. The square has long been a focal point for working class protest and political expression.

09/11/2025

We Do Not Forget