There was progress to report at the 2015 North American Ironworkers/IMPACT Labor-Management conference on key initiatives such as safety, market expansion and making signatory contractors more successful. With the union's membership now above pre-recession levels, the event drew 1,100 union business leaders and members, contractors and owners to Las Vegas Feb. 22-25.
"We have unleashed the power of collaborative innovation—taking the best thoughts from owners to contractors to unions to rank-and-file members—to do things better, and that's given us the confidence that we will be successful," said Walter Wise, general president of the Iron Workers International and labor co-chair of IMPACT.