Releases / Advisories
- May 24, 2013 | USW USW Blasts DOE’s Decision to Not Extend Uranium Enrichment Agreement at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant The United Steelworkers (USW) today blasted the decision by the Department of Energy (DOE) not to approve a proposed agreement among Exelon, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), U.S. Enrichment Corporation, Inc. (USEC) and Ameren that would have extended for eight months the enrichment of DOE’s stockpile of depleted uranium tails at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
- May 23, 2013 | USW USW Urges New York MTA to Reconsider Rebuilding Verrazano-Narrows Bridge with Domestic, not Chinese Steel United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard today wrote to Fernando Ferrer, Acting Chairman, and Thomas F. Prendergast, Interim Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), questioning its decision to use 15,000 tons of steel, all sourced from China, to rebuild the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
- May 17, 2013 | USW USW Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge against Kalkaska County Road Commission The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that the union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Kalkaska County Road Commission with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) for unlawfully implementing changes to the wages and benefits of employees without the union’s agreement.
- May 16, 2013 | USW USW Members Ratify Contracts at ExxonMobil Baytown Complex United Steelworkers (USW) local 13-2001 members tonight ratified three separate agreements with ExxonMobil Baytown for the operations, maintenance and laboratory groups.
- May 15, 2013 | USW USW Praises Senate Support for Strong Buy America Requirements in Water Resources Development Act The United Steelworkers (USW) lauded today’s overwhelming support in the Senate, by a 60-36 margin, to pass the Merkley-Brown amendment (#866) to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). This will ensure that federal taxpayer dollars used to fund water infrastructure projects under WRDA will be spent on goods and materials made here in America by American workers.
- May 10, 2013 | USW USW Commends Hawaii Legislative Resolution to Expand Refinery Task Force Mandate and Include USW United Steelworkers (USW) commends the Hawaii State Legislature for passing Resolution HCR99/SD1 that urges Governor Neil Abercrombie to add a USW Local 12-591 member to the Hawaii Refinery Task Force and to broaden the issues the task force will review.
- May 08, 2013 | USW USW: Manufacturing Essential to Nation’s Military Readiness The United Steelworkers (USW) released the following statement today from USW International President Leo W. Gerard after the release of the report "Remaking American Security: Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and National Security Risks Across the U.S. Defense Industrial Base."
- May 07, 2013 | USW/UNITE Workers Uniting Statement on Bangladesh Workers Uniting shares the global reaction of horror and anger at the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh on April 24 which killed more than 700 workers – with nearly 1,000 still unaccounted for. This is only the latest in a series of fatal industrial ‘accidents’ in the global garment industry.
- May 03, 2013 | USW USW Paper Workers Ratify New Agreement with KPS to Ensure Their Mills’ Future United Steelworkers (USW) members at Wausau Paper’s Rhinelander, Wis., and Mosinee, Wis., mills and the Thilmany mill in Kaukauna, Wis., today ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with KPS Capital Partners in anticipation of the private equity firm successfully creating the largest specialty paper company in North America.
- May 02, 2013 USW Comments on Nomination of Michael Froman to be United States Trade Representative Click here to read USW International President Leo W. Gerard's statement about the nomination of Michael Froman to the US Trade Representative.
