The United Steelworkers believe that we cannot expect to starve our public education system and expect to get the same results. We have educators and workers in elementary and secondary schools, college and universities and in recent years, their jobs and livelihoods have come under attack. Most of us are thankful for the public school system and why it worked - because it was part of the community.
Adjunct faculty members at Point Park University, who are members of the United Steelworkers union, have reached a tentative contract settlement with the downtown Pittsburgh school.
A new union election has been ordered for graduate student employees at the University of Pittsburgh, and the university committed unfair labor practices in its effort to affect the outcome of the graduate students’ vote to join our union. More...
Faculty union organizers condemned Chancellor Patrick Gallagher’s refusal to fully comply with a subpoena from the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board requesting information regarding the list of faculty eligible to be in a potential bargaining unit.
A group of Pittsburgh community members delivered a petition to the Carnegie Library today in support of the workers’ efforts to unionize with the United Steelworkers. More...
