United Steelworkers (USW) District 12 includes the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
When we see policies that will impact our core issues - collective bargaining, safety and health, job security, retirement security, domestic economic issues, and health care – we engage. The Build Back Better Act is one of those policies.
The Liaisons and WOS Committee each carry their own weight of community service for the Local, and because of their incredible combined impact on students in need and people battling cancer, these two groups are District 12's Jefferson Award winner.
Local 7600 announced last Friday that the union membership ratified their latest four-year agreement with Kaiser Permanente after months of difficult negotiations with the health care giant.
DOE requested in 2018 a change in its operating permit to allow it to count the volume of nuclear waste itself instead of the volume of the waste drum. Doing so would mean the underground salt repository would be a third full instead of half full.
District 12 Director
Gaylan Z. Prescott