The six biomedical technicians join approximately 220 other organized workers of Local 254 in the American Red Cross’ manufacturing, storage, and distribution departments.
Anita Bevins is part of five generations of family who have worked at the Portsmouth nuclear site in southern Ohio. Local 689 is one of seven local unions that are part of the USW’s Atomic Energy Workers Council, which represents 3,000 members.
Union leaders representing thousands of workers at Dow, DuPont, Corteva, IFF, and Trinseo locations from the United States and around the globe met last week in Pittsburgh to discuss common issues, devise strategies and pledge their unity.
Union contracts can be a powerful tool in addressing mental health among members and their families, and USW bargaining committees must push for progress on that issue just as they would any other health care language.
Members of the USW 3M Council, who met in Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Oct. 8-9, continued strategizing around 3M’s announcement last January that it would freeze U.S. pension plans for nonunion employees at the end of 2028.
After months of organizing and a grueling campaign with an employer that forced workers into two union elections, Pediatric Specialty Care workers in Danville, Pa. voted to join the USW in August.