One day last week he awakened in the shrubbery Jesse Littlefield, a 57-year-old former Marine and ironworker from North Carolina, and Jill Kline, 56.
It then went on to lay out specifications: The statue should be made of steel, properly covered and shaded from the sun and crafted "either by union ironworkers from the Bay Bridge project, or by a West Oakland group such as The Crucible" — a nonprofit that offers classes in industrial arts.
At first he had company: 30 ironworkers from the Architectural and Ornamental Ironworkers Union, Local 580, who dismantled the statue's armature, replacing the rusting wrought-iron straps with 1,600 stainless-steel bars, pieces that Mr. Garvey helped make at the site.
Asked about the mix of artists and ironworkers in the neighborhood, the bar owner, Bill Harrigan, walked outside, where a mural on the building depicts teamsters sailing from Ireland to Brooklyn, as ironworkers watch from the bridge.
In fact, just yesterday I saw a guy on the G train wearing overalls an ironworker from the nineteen-twenties, is my guess and he looked really, really cool.
John V. Robinson, a Bay Area photographer and ironworkers folklorist, has likened the troll's placement to the long-standing tradition of "topping out" a project.
Here rests the last column removed from ground zero, complete with the graffiti from firefighters and ironworkers who recovered victims and cleaned the site.
What unites the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Ironworkers, the American Trucking Association, the Associated General Contractors of America and the Laborers International Union?
These symptoms are consistent with those identified in the rescue workers and responder populations such as the firefighters and ironworkers (Feldman et al. 2004).
I found this bit especially illuminating: Emanuel [who has no public-sector union support] does have support from some private-sector unions, including the Teamsters and the Plumbers', Bricklayers', and Ironworkers' locals.
