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International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local Union 752
Building-trades labour union representing structural, ornamental, and reinforcing (rebar) ironworkers and welders across mainland Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island. It dispatches skilled members to construction employers, negotiates collective agreements, and runs apprenticeship and journeyperson training for the trade.
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Halifax Shipyard Assembly and Ultra Hall production facility
CompletedField ironworkers / structural steel erection; Local 752 members erected the steel frame, with the final truss signed by Local 752 members before installation
Owner: Irving Shipbuilding; general contractor for the steel was Walters Inc. (Walters Steel). The marinelink article explicitly names Ironworkers Local 752 (apprentice Simon Prosper). Building described as more than four football fields long; final truss installed September 2014 ahead of combat-ship construction starting 2015. The 9,000-ton steel figure and 'record five months' detail appear in the Ironworkers International magazine writeup, which is currently behind an auth gate (HTTP 401) and is therefore not shipped as a live source.
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The local is approximately 450 members strong (per its own website).
SOURCE ▸Local 752's jurisdiction covers Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, as listed by its parent body, the Iron Workers District Council of Eastern Canada ("Ironworkers Local 752 - Nova Scotia & P.E.I.").
SOURCE ▸Local 752 is a party to current (2023-2026) collective agreements for both structural & miscellaneous ironwork and reinforcing steel (rebar) on the mainland of Nova Scotia, negotiated with the Nova Scotia Construction Labour Relations Association (CLRA).
SOURCE ▸Full legal name on its collective agreements is 'International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers, Local Union 752', with its office at 24 Beechville Park Drive, Unit 103, Beechville, Nova Scotia B3T 1L1.
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