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David McCall discusses domestic manufacturing policy, potential on the Leslie Marshall Show
USW International Vice President David McCall appeared on the Leslie Marshall Show last week to discuss the importance of American manufacturing to meaningful economic growth...
Negotiations heat up in Southern California for Local 7600
Things are heating up at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, where members of Local 7600 have held a summer series of solidarity actions...
USW Members Support Space Exploration
Nine highly skilled USW members at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) use their expertise to help propel America’s spacecraft and rover systems across the solar system.
It’s Time to Pass the PRO Act! Contact Your Senators Today!
The purposes of the PRO Act are simple: to ensure workers can push for the changes we want to see at our jobs without fear of retaliation, and to strengthen workers’ rights to form a union and negotiate for those changes if we so choose.
Bishop Noa Workers Ratify First Contract
Workers at Bishop Noa Home in Escanaba, Mich., ratified their first contract July 15 after a bitter, protracted battle to secure a deal.
Local 1-689 Pushes Reindustrialization of Former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Local 1-689 leaders met separately with a top Department of Energy official and an Ohio congressman to gauge their support for possible initiatives that could bring jobs to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant after the cleanup work is completed.
USW health care workers showcase their solidarity during negotiations
Members of Local 7600 held a button and sticker week at the end of June to showcase their solidarity amidst a tough round of negotiations with health care giant Kaiser-Permanente.
Legislative Director Roy Houseman Testifies for Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth on “Defending and Investing in U.S. Competitiveness”
Click to read his full testimony...
PRO Act Would Rebuild Labor Movement
Rapid Response is asking USW members across the country to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to vote YES for the PRO Act. Please call your senators at: 877-607-0785. (Remember, you have two senators, so be sure to make two calls!)
USW Launches Infrastructure Campaign: We Supply America
We’re taking a broad, ambitious view that includes rebuilding not only our physical infrastructure – like roads, bridges, ports and waterways – but also the social infrastructure of our schools, communications networks and public health services.
U.S. Chemical Industry Mid-Year Outlook Reveals Demand Growth
Chemical sales are rebounding as the nation starts reopening after the Covid-19 pandemic, but full recovery may take until 2023, according to an economist with the American Chemistry Council.
Former OSHA Head Advocates Better Safety and Health System to Protect Workers and the Public
In an interview with Chemical and Engineering News, Michaels cited the extended lead time required to create a final standard that he and—even the agency—admit is oftentimes too weak.
3M Workers Unanimously Approve 3-Year Contract With Wage Gains, Other Improvements
The 35 members who work in maintenance, production and the shipping department will receive 2.5 percent wage increases each year of the contract, which begins July 1, 2021 and ends July 1, 2024.
Southeast Chicago SOAR Chapter 31-9 Commemorates 84th Anniversary of Memorial Day Massacre
Chapter 13-9 launched a new video that tells the story of the deadly attack on workers that took place in 1937. They also held an outdoor gathering with guest speakers and a rose-laying ceremony at the memorial site.
Minnesota health care workers hold picket ahead of contract negotiations
More than 100 health care workers at Essentia Health in Duluth, Minn., took to the streets this past weekend for an informational picket as they enter bargaining with their employer.
Local 12-652 Wins Major Wage Increases, Other Improvements at Idaho National Laboratory
The contract with Battelle Energy Alliance covers 24 different work classifications in maintenance and operations for about 380 members who work on the Advanced Test Reactor and the nuclear research and development side of Idaho National Laboratory.
Local 8-550 Workers Engage in Project to Help Community Development
Local members at the former Gaseous Diffusion Plan cleanup site are draining insulating oil from electrical components into rail cars that are then transported to a community organization that supports economic development in the region.
OSHA Provides Further Guidance on Covid-19 Prevention, Critical to Keeping Atomic Workers Safe on the Job
Retirement facility workers officially become Steelworkers
February Update from SOAR Director Julie Stein
Click to read an update from SOAR Director Julie Stein that originally appeared in the January-February SOAR Connection newsletter.