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Colorado teachers go to the Capitol to demand more education funding
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Pasadena Workers Fight for a First Contract
Negotiations between Solvay and newly organized workers at their Pasadena plant began January 29, 2018 and both sides have met a few times. Progress has been slow, with only a few language items settled.
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Let Us Praise Trump’s Incoherence.
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“After what we’ve experienced at Carrier, I want my kids to see me standing up for what’s right and show them how important helping others is.” TJ Bray, USW Local 1999, speaking to media during a community event for our laid off Carrier workers. #USWLife.
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Lack of Workplace Structure Motivates Former Union Members to Organize Nonunion Solvay Plant
On Nov. 5, 2017 workers at Solvay's Pasadena plant overwhelmingly voted to join the USW in an NLRB election. Click here to read why they decided to organize.
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USW Evonik Members at Weston Plant Gain Substantial Wage Increases
Local 7237-05 members at Evonik Industries AG’s Weston, Mich., facility ratified a new three-year contract with substantial wage increases. The agreement covers 25 employees.
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Throwing it back to this past October, when USW partnered with Highmark volunteers on national Make a Difference Day to help those in need with a variety of community service projects and to promote doing good deeds. Fast forward to this week, National Vo
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2018 USW HSE Conference: The New View of Safety with Todd Conklin
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Pasadena Workers Fight for a First Contract
Negotiations between Solvay and newly organized workers at their Pasadena plant began January 29, 2018 and both sides have met a few times. Progress has been slow, with only a few language items settled.
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Lack of Workplace Structure Motivates Former Union Members to Organize Nonunion Solvay Plant
On Nov. 5, 2017 workers at Solvay's Pasadena plant overwhelmingly voted to join the USW in an NLRB election. Click here to read why they decided to organize.
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USW Evonik Members at Weston Plant Gain Substantial Wage Increases
Local 7237-05 members at Evonik Industries AG’s Weston, Mich., facility ratified a new three-year contract with substantial wage increases. The agreement covers 25 employees.
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Members Approve Two Contracts at Evonik Kentucky Plant
Local 8-727 members from two different bargaining units at the Evonik facility in Calvert City, Ky., ratified agreements that contained wage increases and other provisions favorable toward workers.
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USW Proposal Spotlights Excessive 3M CEO Compensation
3M CEO Inge Thulin’s compensation in 2017 was $20.5 million—324 times the median 3M employee compensation. To address this large discrepancy, the USW 3M Council is sponsoring its first shareholders resolution at the company’s annual stockholder meeting.
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USW Forms Evonik Council
Evonik’s acquisitions of chemical units from companies like Degussa, Air Products and J.M. Huber resulted in eight USW locals, so the International formed the USW Evonik Council last fall.
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USW Union, Highmark Honored with National Award for Community Service
The United Steelworkers International Union and Highmark Health are being honored this week by the TEGNA Foundation with a national award for their “Make A Difference Day” project.
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USW Calls on Wisconsin Senate to Vote on Kimberly-Clark Plan
Local 2-482 of the United Steelworkers union is calling on the Wisconsin state Senate to hold an immediate vote on a legislative subsidy package designed to keep two Kimberly-Clark manufacturing plants in operation.
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USW Joins Community Groups to Sue Environmental Protection Agency
The administration’s delay implementing a commonsense rule to protect chemical workers and the community from industrial chemical releases and explosions prompted the USW and community allies to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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USW member goes to the Dominican - not to vacation, but make difference
USW Local 2243 member Shawn Bresnahan spent a week in the Dominican Republic - not for vacation, but to make a difference. Click here for more.
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He died while fighting for union rights
Our International Vice President Fred Redmond has penned this essay about the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who died 50 years ago today fighting for workers. Click here for more.
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Securing Labor Rights in Mexico Fundamental to NAFTA Reform
United Steelworkers International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement in conjunction with the release of a letter sent to USTR Robert Lighthizer yesterday regarding proposed labor law reforms in Mexico.
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Colorado teachers go to the Capitol to demand more education funding
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Let Us Praise Trump’s Incoherence.
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Evidence shows collective bargaining—especially with the ability to strike—raises teacher pay
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The Real Deal on Trump’s Trade Tantrums
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400,000 Virginia residents edge closer to Medicaid expansion after key Republican splits with party
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Corporations, not workers, are receiving the greatest benefits from GOP tax bill
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Here's How the Republican Tax Reform Is Screwing You and Helping the Rich
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Unions, CBO’s new baseline, the Bernstein Rule
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Healthcare In The U.S. Vs The Rest Of The World
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Paul Ryan’s cruel vision for American health care will haunt Congress after his retirement
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How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump
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On Capitol Hill, a Discussion of Unfair Chinese Trade
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Monday Morning Minute: April 16, 2018
In this issue: An update on recent trade legislation; recap of New View presentation at the 2018 Health, Safety and Environment Conference; an industry update; and some handy lists of paper-based products.
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Monday Morning Minute: April 9, 2018
In this issue: Council meeting reminders for GP, IP and Graphic Packaging; PCA Mills honored with award at 2018 Health, Safety and Environment Conference; and the latest in the paper industry.
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Monday Morning Minute: April 2, 2018
In this issue: Safety alerts from locals 395 and 9-0738; tips for local union elections; a brief history of the paper industry in Wisconsin; recap from the 2018 HSE Conference; info for 2018 Workers' Memorial Day; and an industry update.
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Monday Morning Minute: March 26, 2018
In this issue: incident alert from local 1259; information on the 2018 Paper Sector Bargaining Conference; highlights from a safety training at locals 13-391 & 1398; and updates in the industry.
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Monday Morning Minute: March 19, 2018
In this issue: incident alert from local union 1192; collective bargaining updates; safety issues addressed; and and the latest from the paper industry.
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Monday Morning Minute: March 12, 2018
In this issue: incident alert from USW Local 2-482-01 at Clearwater Paper in Neenah, WI; highlights from a two-day safety training at USW Local 12943; and paper industry updates.
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Monday Morning Minute: March 5, 2018
Paper workers' newsletter features info. about health & safety incidents, OSHA regulations & union-management health & safety meetings; provides summaries of arbitration cases, & news on trade, bargaining, local unions, & companies in the paper sector.
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Monday Morning Minute: Feb. 26, 2018
Paper workers' newsletter features info. about health & safety incidents, OSHA regulations & union-management health & safety meetings; provides summaries of arbitration cases, & news on trade, bargaining, local unions, & companies in the paper sector.
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USW@Work: Volume 13, Issue 1
In this issue: Our new campaign to ensure continued growth and sustainability of mining in Minnesota; highlighting local union 1-00377 who make buns and muffins in Ohio; and updates on our trade and bargaining.
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SOAR in Action - Winter 2018 Edition
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Monday Morning Minute: Feb. 19, 2018
Paper workers' newsletter features info. about health & safety incidents, OSHA regulations & union-management health & safety meetings; provides summaries of arbitration cases, & news on trade, bargaining, local unions, & companies in the paper sector.
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Monday Morning Minute: Feb. 12, 2018
Paper workers' newsletter features info. about health & safety incidents, OSHA regulations & union-management health & safety meetings; provides summaries of arbitration cases, & news on trade, bargaining, local unions, & companies in the paper sector.
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2018 USW HSE Conference: The New View of Safety with Todd Conklin
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UnionHall: Website Building for USW Local Unions!
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Casino Workers: You are the Union
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USW HSE Memorial Scroll 2018
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Pitt, Rename Parran Hall & Stop Honoring an Unethical Scientist
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Our Tokes are Our Tokes!
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Female Faculty at Pitt: Something doesn't add up
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I AM: 2018 USW Full Program
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Pitt Faculty are Organizing to Form a Union!
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Happy New Year from the USW
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“After what we’ve experienced at Carrier, I want my kids to see me standing up for what’s right and show them how important helping others is.” TJ Bray, USW Local 1999, speaking to media during a community event for our laid off Carrier workers. #USWLife.
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The 2018 Paper Sector Bargaining Conference is coming up fast, have you registered? Visit http://usw.to/PaperBargConf to register and make your hotel reservations today. #USWWorks...
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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local govern
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The feeling you have knowing you've had a hand in making something is amazing. There is dignity and pride in manufacturing jobs. Let's make sure our kids know this. Let's be sure we're investing in vocational education. Let's stop the stereotypes about ma
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Today kicks off National Volunteer Week, and we know Steelworkers have huge hearts and contribute so much to the communities where we live and work. So THANK YOU for all you do! Share with us your favorite photos of your community service in the comments
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You can win a 6-pack of Regal Cinema tickets simply by sharing @Union Plus Spring Break Savings with your union friends and family! Click here to see how you can win: http://unionplus.deals/refer. No purchase necessary. #USWWorks...
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Red Cross workers are Steelworkers, too! Representing over 372 brothers and sisters at Local 9287 in Alabama and Local 254 in Georgia, our members travel to colleges, high schools and businesses all over the country to draw blood. The blood is then sent b
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Organizing was in the air during the Great Depression, and oil workers at Mid-Continent Refinery in Oklahoma were no exception to the rule. In 1937 they began organizing with the Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers of America—one of the precursor unio
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Did you know....in April of 1998, Canadian Steelworkers, backed by 40 labour and human rights groups, filed the first-ever complaint under NAFTA's labour side agreement, supporting the attempt by an independent Mexican steelworkers union to organize a bra
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Share if you’ll keep fighting with us until equality is achieved. #EqualPayDay #USWUnity....
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Congratulations!! After joining the steelworkers in 2015, 80 brothers and sisters at Tim Hortons are set to obtain their first collective agreement. Local 7065, from the community of Sept-Iles, showed tremendous courage and determination in their 3 year-l
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Ohio Senator Pens Scathing Letter To GM CEO Over Lordstown Job Cuts https://t.co/rj3vpLQtJ2 #1u
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If you’ve been waiting to be trained on UnionHall, new webinar training dates are scheduled! Sign up here: https://t.co/kEZICEL0D9
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Efforts to Save Hamilton Specialty Bar Fall Short. #Solidarity with our brothers & sisters! https://t.co/WrqNxpHwqG #USWWorks
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For locals transitioning to UnionHall, the free local union website tool we offer - more trainings have been schedu… https://t.co/4CafVXDPJN
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ABI Lockout Costs Alcoa, Rio Tinto $150 Million - and Counting - https://t.co/nLP2b6iqbA #USWWorks
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@CWA_NJ Congratulations! #1u
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Thank you for sharing @USW9231 #Solidarity w/our brothers & sisters in Los Mineros!! https://t.co/8N10xLapqd
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USW proposal will spotlight the excessive compensation of 3M's CEO. In 2017 CEO made $20.5 million -- 324 time the… https://t.co/e5SUe4Yzhe
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