// REFERENCED ON THE SHOW
Ironworkers Local 764
Building-trades labour union representing structural, ornamental and reinforcing ironworkers and welders across Newfoundland and Labrador. It supplies skilled field labour to construction/industrial contractors, runs apprenticeship and journeyperson certification training, and administers member dispatch, benefit plans and a job line.
📍 Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada✓ 88% first-party verified
// DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW
// ON THE RECORD WITH
Marid Industries
Works with
Unionized field labor for Newfoundland installations
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Iron Workers Training Centre (Local 764)
CompletedOwner / client (facility built for Local 764; structural steel and miscellaneous metals contract awarded to Marid Industries)
This is the union's own training centre, not a job its members were dispatched to build under their trade. Recorded as a verified facility/asset; the construction was performed by Marid Industries as steel subcontractor, with Local 764 as the owner/client. Square footage and year per Marid's project page.
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// NOTABLE
On Jan. 8, 2025 the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers placed Local 764 under trusteeship as an 'emergency measure', dismissing local president Larry Hawco and business manager Tom Woodford (also then president of Trades NL), along with district council delegates and trust-fund trustees, amid an open investigation.
SOURCE ▸Following the trusteeship, the local's business and affairs are managed by Iron Workers District Council of Eastern Canada president Jimmy Buisson and the international union's vice-president of Canadian affairs Colin Daniels; the local remains operational (current dispatching rules document published on its site in Jan. 2026, acting officers listed).
SOURCE ▸Local 764 represents skilled tradespeople across Newfoundland and Labrador, with its office at 38 Sagona Avenue, Mount Pearl, NL.
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