USW@Work: Volume 16, Issue 4
FEATURES
Page 8: USW TELLS NATION: ‘WE SUPPLY AMERICA’
A bus tour of USW local unions and workplaces this summer highlighted the union’s “We Supply America” campaign to enact a major infrastructure program.
Page 12: Faculty Wins at Pitt
Thousands of University of Pittsburgh faculty members are getting ready to bargain their first union contract with the school’s administration after voting by a more than 2-to-1 ratio to become members of the USW.
The vote, held from late August through mid-October, was a success despite an aggressive anti-union effort that stretched the campaign out for several years and cost the university administration more than $2 million.
Page 14: Sparrows Point Revived
The USW this August announced a partnership with renewable energy company US Wind to transform part of the former Sparrows Point steel mill near Baltimore into a manufacturing facility to support the offshore wind energy industry.