That’s too few, says Rocio Campos, a single mother of two from Los Angeles County who today works as an ironworker after completing four years of an apprenticeship. She took a long and twisted ...

The death of an apprentice ironworker at Benson Polytechnic High School’s renovation could have been prevented by finding a safer method to move staircase railings, state investigators determined.

She is now in her first year of an apprenticeship program run by an ironworkers union local in connection with Cerritos College, a community college near Los Angeles. “It makes a huge difference. It’s ...