A southwest suburban dad died on a job site earlier this month when he was hit with a piece of steel. His son is now suing ...

"I am so saddened to hear my fellow brother Ironworker and friend Tom Kircher lost his life on the jobsite," State Rep. Harry ...

Ironworking isn't a job typically associated with top-notch perks. Yet the relatively small number of women in the trade now have something in common with workers at some marquee Silicon Valley firms.

Vocational enrollment is up among younger Americans as the toolbelt generation takes shape, and one nurse-turned-union ironworker thinks it's a good opportunity for students to secure their futures.

We talked to journeyman ironworker and motivational speaker Jamie McMillan about what led her to start a career in the skilled trades and why she thinks more women should do the same. What inspired ...

The wife of one of the two ironworkers killed in the crane collapse in Seattle on Saturday wants her husband remembered for the life he lived, not the way he died. Travis Corbet was working to help ...

The topping-off ceremony at a major construction project is a time of ironworker pride and camaraderie. Their work all but complete, the men who build the steel skeletons that prop up the city skyline ...

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“It's important to look at the entirety of the circumstance, not just what happened in this exact moment, but what the workplace environment was,” said Kline & Specter partner Regan Safier. A cement ...

A photograph said to show an ironworker standing on top of what looks like a steel beam towering above a city's skyline has circulated online for more than a decade. Wearing a hard hat and blue jeans, ...

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CHICAGO — The ironworkers clambered onto the Willis Tower roof, 1,450 feet above the city. Then they climbed higher. The mission: Complete the installation of one of the skyscraper’s massive antennas, ...