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District 13 Council Supports Recovery Efforts After Hurricane Laura
Click to read how staff and members are coming together to help those in need after the hurricane hit Louisiana.
Workers at Portsmouth Cleanup Site Ratify First Contract
The two-year agreement will expire August 2022 when the contract ends for the larger professional & technical (P&T) unit.
USW Decries Continued Job Loss to Mexico
United Steelworkers International President Tom Conway issued the following statement in response to last week’s announcement that FreightCar America will be abandoning its plant in Cherokee, Ala., and consolidating operations in Castanos, Mexico.
Register for Resiliency Training for USW Next Gen Members
Click here to register for the webinar scheduled for Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 6 p.m. EST.
Biden meets with USW members in Michigan backyard to talk jobs
Click here to learn what happened with Presidential candidate Joe Biden visited with USW members in a Detroit backyard.
A Message from District 1
Click here to read a letter from our District 1 leadership regarding the upcoming presidential election.
Become a gatekeeper for democracy
America is facing a record shortage of poll workers this year due to the coronavirus. Our democracy depends on ordinary people who make sure elections run smoothly and everyone's vote is counted.
USW President Conway: America still failing health care workers
In his latest weekly blog, USW International President Tom Conway slammed U.S. leaders, including President Donald Trump, over the lack of support given to health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
3M Cottage Grove Members Push Back Against Company’s Unsafe Proposals
Bargaining started June 8 for a new agreement covering some 292 production workers and 70 in the building crafts. They work at the 3M Cottage Grove campus in Minnesota at six plants, each organized as a division with its own departments.
The Oilworker: September 2020
Click the link to read a message from the NOBP Chair.
Vice President Brown testifies on behalf of USW members, pushes for American infrastructure
District 11 Leadership: Trump Failed Minnesota Workers
Click here to read a letter from our District 11 leadership regarding the presidential election.
Local 9460 President Deanna Hughes channels veteran experience, union training to lead Minnesota health care union
Local 9460 President Deanna Hughes, who also sits on the union’s Health Care Workers Council, was interviewed for the latest USW Solidarity Works podcast episode.
Tom Conway discusses Trump’s anti-worker NLRB on The Leslie Marshall Show
USW President Tom Conway appeared on the Leslie Marshall Show this week to discuss the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under President Trump, which regularly rules in favor of corporations and against workers.
Energy Secretary Visits Hanford
Brouillette, along with Energy Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and U.S. Representatives Dan Newhouse and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, toured various facilities on the nuclear reservation.
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Workers’ Comp Law Helping Hanford Workers
The three judges on Aug.19 unanimously upheld a 2018 Washington state law that allowed workers at Hanford to make workers’ compensation claims without proving their illness was related to their work at the site.
Steelworkers picket with care workers for a contract in Michigan
Workers of the Bishop Noa Home in the shoreline city of Escanaba, Mich., gathered in both the sun and rain for an informational picket last Wednesday, August 17.
Retirement home workers in Canada officially join the USW
Workers at the Seasons Dufferin Centre retirement home in Trenton, Ontario, have officially become USW members after holding a secret-ballot vote supervised by the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
Deliver Some Solidarity: Contact Congress and urge them to save our Postal Service.
Postal Workers need urgent support - let's show them the Steelworkers have their backs. Click to take action now...
USW Members Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract with Briggs & Stratton Bidder
Members of United Steelworkers Local 2-232 voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract with a newly formed affiliate of KPS Capital Partners.