- June 17, 2013 USW Paper Sector Monday Morning Minute This week: Fatality at Graphic Packaging Plant in West Monroe, La.; safety Policy Arbitration at Graphic Packaging Facility in Kalamazoo, Mich.; Today in Labor History; KapStone to Acquire Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging, Inc.; and Feds Ask Georgia-Pacific for Buckeye Data.
- June 10, 2013 USW Paper Sector Monday Morning Minute This week: OSHA Cites RWS Manufacturing for 28 Alleged Safety and Health Standards; Two Paperworks Industries Local Unions Reach Tentative 4-year Agreements; Domtar Union Council Meets; Today in Labor History; Sappi May Close More Paper Mills in Europe; Expera Specialy Solutions LLC Assigned 'B' Corporate Credit Rating; and IP Subsidiary Temple Inland Fined $3.3M for Pearl River Fish Kill.
- June 06, 2013 Update on Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals Act The Senate has their own version of this bill that does not include the electronic drug labeling requirement. The USW will work to address the electronic requirement problem during the conference negotiations to reconcile these two bills.
- June 05, 2013 House approves bill creating nationwide pharmaceutical traceability Language in the bill allows doctors and pharmacies to give patients electronically delivered directions on how to use prescription drugs. The paper labeling of these drugs would be gone and so would more than 1,000 paper jobs at mills in Maine that produce this paper. The bill still can be stopped in the Senate.
- June 03, 2013 Call Congress TODAY to stop Move of Pharmaceutical Labeling from Paper to Electronic: USW Paperworkers Would Lose Jobs It is urgent and imperative that you call your Congressperson TODAY and tell them to vote NO on the Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticasl Act, HR 1919. This bill would move pharmaceutical labeling from printed material to electronic only. This bill places thousands of USW jobs in the pulp and paper industry and American consumers at great risk.
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- December 19, 2011 Canadian/American Resolute forest workers unite American and Canadian union members who work for forest industry giant Resolute Forest Products (formerly AbitibiBowater) have joined forces to “speak with one voice” to the company.
- December 19, 2011 USW Successfully Concludes Key Industry Negotiations with Master Agreement Covering 43 IP Converter Plants After two weeks of voting, the United Steelworkers (USW) today said that its members have ratified a four-year master economic and security agreement with International Paper (IP) that covers about 5,700 workers at 43 of the company's converter plants where they make corrugated boxes and containers.
- December 02, 2011 USW Commends EPA for Reviewing Waste Definition, Boiler Rules Leaders of the United Steelworkers (USW) cited today’s notice of proposed changes to industrial boiler rules by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an important step in the agency’s responsibility for crafting rules that help preserve family-sustaining jobs and encourage investment in technologies to make America more energy independent.
- December 01, 2011 USW Members Ratify New Domtar Master Agreement The United Steelworkers (USW) union announced today the ratification of a four-year master agreement with Domtar covering over 3,000 workers. The agreement was reached after a week of negotiations in Nashville over key economic and security issues and after a year of strategic planning and meetings
- September 07, 2011 USW Prepares to Assist Members at NewPage Following Company’s Bankruptcy Filing The United Steelworkers (USW) released the following statement today after being notified that NewPage Corp., the largest North American maker of coated papers, filed for bankruptcy six years after being bought by Cerberus Capital Management LP ... more
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- March 20, 2013 URGENT--INCIDENT ALERT Local 1034 member was fatally injured March 17 when he fell into the #5 filler hydro-pulper while working at White Pigeon Paper Company in White Pigeon, MI.
- March 08, 2013 URGENT--INCIDENT ALERT On March 5 , 2013 a USW Local 2-248 member was seriously injured while working at PCA in Tomahawk, WI.
- January 24, 2013 Hazard Alert--Failure to Conduct Management of Change (MOC) Leads to Fatality
- January 14, 2013 Hazard Alert--Air Compressor Overheats and Results in Fatality This Hazard Alert stems from the explosion at the Verso Paper, Sartell, Minnesota Paper mill.
- August 26, 2012 Hazard Alert---Lack of Machine Safeguarding Lack of machine safeguarding leads to hand and finger injuries.
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- July 12, 2011 Fix The Hazards, Don’t Paper Them Over Leaflets The 36 fatalities since our merger to form USW are a mere tip of the iceberg, life-altering injuries are even more common. Usually the immediate cause of an accident gets fixed. It will never happen again in that specific way at that specific workplace.
- March 23, 2011 Year-long Paper Health & Safety Campaign to be Launched Workers Memorial Day April 28 Paper locals are engaging in a National Day of Action on Workers Memorial Day April 28 to bring attention to health and safety in the paper sector. Their activities will kick off a year-long Season of Safety to highlight and introduce a hazards-based approach into our facilities.
- April 06, 2011 Letter from Leo Gerard and Jon Geenen on the Season of Safety At the last USW Paper Sector Conference, the group was asked if any local had ever experienced a fatality at their facility. Well over 70% of the delegates raised their hands. The group was then asked if any member at their facility had experienced a life-altering safety event. Every single hand in the room went up.
- March 02, 2011 Share Your Stories, Photos & Videos of Your Local’s Safety Activities Throughout the Year We welcome your stories, photos and videos about your local's Workers Memorial Day activities and safety events throughout the year. This article shows you how to send this material to us or how to post it yourself.
- March 31, 2011 The Paper Research Action Project (RAP) The sheer number of deaths and life-altering injuries in the paper sector led the USW to spearhead a groundbreaking safety survey that was the largest ever conducted in the industry. A team of member safety activists, USW technicians and leadership developed the survey and local union leaders and safety activists at 173 USW-represented mills completed it. The survey report, entitled Papered Over, put forth 7 key findings of underlying systemic causes of accidents in our facilities and includes recommendations for action.
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