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The State Building and Construction Trades Council represents hundreds of thousands of workers in the state, including bricklayers, ironworkers and painters, among many others.

Aaron McDonald thinks back to when he came to Maricopa County nearly 20 years ago as a young ironworker hoping to get work building a new football stadium.

Mr. Scheig, an ironworker who helped build the city’s famous arch, never told their family exactly what he was doing at the plant, where scientists first began processing uranium for the Manhattan Project in 1942.

Her great-great grandfather was an ironworker named Henson Summers, whose unusual first name helped genealogists to trace his family.

When Aubrey Russell, 34, got out of prison in 2019, she didn’t have a car for her first six months as an apprentice ironworker.