Next Generation News
Register for Resiliency Training for USW Next Gen Members
Click here to register for the webinar scheduled for Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 6 p.m. EST.
Sign up today for COVID-19 Awareness Training for USW Next Gen
Attention Next Geners: we've put together a special training about COVID-19 at the workplace for you. Sign up here!
Join unions across the globe for webinar to amplify young worker voices during and beyond COVID-19
Global Unions, including IndustriALL Global Union, have joined together to amplify the voices of young workers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in a series of two webinars.
Will you join us for a moral march on Washington?
Join us on June 20, 2020, along with the Poor People's Campaign and other allies to demand 140 million poor & low-income people across the nation are heard.
USW@Work: Volume 15, Issue 2
In this issue: members mobilize to fight COVID-19; highlight of USW Local Union 8888; results from the "Your Union. Your Voice." survey and town halls; and a recap of Black Labor Week.
Connie Mabin Talks the Next Generation of Labor on The Leslie Marshall Show
USW's Connie Mabin, director of the Next Generation program, talked about the union's young worker initiative and the future of labor on The Leslie Marshall Show this week.
November Update from SOAR President Bill Pienta
Click to read an update from SOAR President Bill Pienta that originally appeared in the November-December SOAR Connection newsletter.
USW@Work: Volume 15, Issue 1
In this issue: Workers ratify a new contract at packaging giant WestRock; an organizing up date from Proterra in California; Rapid Response activists lobbied Congress for legislation to preserve endangered pension funds; the latest on trade; and more.
USW@Work: Volume 14, Issue 4
In this issue: Local 132 members at Spring City Electrical Manufacturing produce ornate cast iron lamp posts for big cities, small towns, college campuses and theme parks; new contracts in aluminum and tire; the latest in our trade fights; and more.
Workplace violence in health care highlighted at USW health and safety conference
The opening session of the USW Health, Safety and Environment Conference highlighted the epidemic of workplace violence in health care by urging attendees to support a vital bill working its way through the U.S. Congress.
Next Generation Leader from District 7 Elected as Commissioner
Justin Willis, a Next Generation leader from USW Local 7-507 in District 7, was recently elected as Commissioner for the Village of Bridgeview in Cook County, near Chicago.
USW@Work: Volume 13, Issue 4
In this issue: Recaps from the National Oil Bargaining Conference and Rubber and Plastics Industry Conference; updates on bargaining in steel and health care; the latest on our legislative and trade fights; highlight of USW Local 675; and more.
USW@Work: Volume 13, Issue 3
In this issue: updates from Steel, Paper and Oil Bargaining, a highlight of Local Union 419M whose members make Fiestaware; a recap of the 2018 Rapid Response Conference; an update on the lockout of Local Unions 12012 and 12003 at National Grid; and more.
USW@Work: Volume 12, Issue 3
In this edition: The union difference for casino workers in W. Va.; contract updates from paper, academics, mining, and tire and rubber; status of the 232 investigations into steel and aluminum; outcome of investment from Apple into Ky., Corning plant.
USW@Work: Volume 11, Issue 2
In this edition: ArcelorMittal Contract; Protecting American Manufacturing Jobs; Paper Conference Highlights; Made in America Spotlight on Newell Coach.