2015
NLRB Ready to Issue Complaint against ATI Unless Settlement Reached in Oregon
Region 19 Director Cites Company’s Attempt to Unlawfully Deny Ore. Workers USW Representation
USW Delivers Message at Iron Range Jobs Summit
Emil Ramirez, Director for USW District 11, joined a small group of taconite miners from the shutdown mines on Northern Minnesota’s Iron Range for a private jobs crisis leadership summit yesterday at the Mesabi Range Community and Technical College.
USW Praises Antidumping Duties on Coated Steel
The United Steelworkers (USW) confirmed another preliminary determination announced late Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) following antidumping (AD) duty investigations for imports of corrosion-resistant steel products ...
USW Appoints Kim Nibarger to Head Union’s Oil Sector
United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard announced Dec. 18 that Kim Nibarger will be the new chair of the union’s oil sector and head the oil bargaining nationwide. Nibarger replaces former oil bargaining chair ... more
USW Reaches Tentative Agreement with U.S. Steel
The United Steelworkers (USW) union’s bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement today on a new contract covering 18,000 workers at more than a dozen facilities across the United States.
USW Responds to Budget Package
The United Steelworkers (USW) issued the following statement in response to the passage of the $1.15 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, otherwise known as the Omnibus, which provides funding for all discretionary spending ... more
NLRB to Issue Complaint Alleging Four-Month ATI Lockout is Illegal
The United Steelworkers (USW) union was informed today by Region 6 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Pittsburgh that the regional director will issue a complaint in the four-month-long Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) ... more
USW Win: Funding for Piketon Cleanup, USW Jobs Included in Omnibus
The United Steelworkers (USW) today applauded the successful efforts of USW Local 689 to incorporate language in the omnibus funding measure passed by Congress to maintain decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) activities ... more
Union Ratifies Contract with True Temper Sports
The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that members of Local 7477 have ratified a new contract with True Temper Sports that will increase pay and improve benefits for nearly 200 workers ... more
USW Flags U.S. Prelim Duties on Steel Imports
The United Steelworkers (USW) today responded to the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) announcement of preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports for certain cold-rolled steel flat product imports ...
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant USW Members Approve New Four-Year Pact
United Steelworkers (USW) Local 12-9477 members at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, N.M., overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year agreement with Nuclear Waste Partnership ...
USW Leadership Statement Urges Rejection of TPP
The International Executive Board of the United Steelworkers (USW) today adopted a formal resolution urging rejection of the proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal by both the U.S. Congress and the Canadian federal government.
USW Condemns Vandalism of Mexican Grocery
The United Steelworkers (USW) issued the following statement in response to an anti-Mexican message written on the wall of a prominent Mexican grocery store in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood ... more
USW Commends USTR Filing Action against China for Its Illegal Aerospace Support Measures
United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement today in conjunction with the announcement by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that it was pursuing action ...
USW Expresses Solidarity with People of France
The United Steelworkers (USW) joins the rest of the global trade union movement in expressing our grief at the senseless killings in Paris and our solidarity with the French people.
USW Applauds Trade Duties Kept on China Steel Plate Imports
The United Steelworkers (USW) confirmed a unanimous vote by the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to sustain anti-dumping duties on steel plate imports from China that are protecting thousands of American union steelworker jobs ... more
Global Union Coalition Opposes Plans for EU to Grant Market Economy Status to China
Workers Uniting, a partnership between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Unite the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, has announced its strong opposition to any move by the European Union ... more
Adjunct Faculty at Point Park Overwhelmingly Ratifies Contract
Members of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers (AFA-USW) voted overwhelmingly to ratify the union’s first contract with Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh.
USW Opposes American Job-Killing Trans-Pacific Partnership
The United Steelworkers issued the following statement today in response to the release of the text of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement ... more
B&H Photo Warehouse Employees Vote to Join USW Union
Today, some workers at two B&H warehouses in Bushwick and in the Brooklyn Navy Yard voted by a 200-to-88 margin for representation by the United Steelworkers (USW) union.