USW HSE Memorial Scroll 2018
A video scroll honoring the names of the USW/CWA brothers and sisters who fell victim to occupational fatalities from August 13, 2016 to March 5, 2018. May they rest in peace.
Pitt, Rename Parran Hall & Stop Honoring an Unethical Scientist
Pitt's Parran Hall is named for former U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran who presided over the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which 399 African American men were deceived and infected with syphilis without consent. Sign our petition urging them to change the name! pittgradunion.org
Our Tokes are Our Tokes!
The Department of Labor (DOL) is in the process of changing the tip rules. The new rules could make it possible for employers, like The Meadows, to take of distributing tips (tokes) however they see fit as long as they pay us at least the minimum wage. We want to prevent this from happening!
Striking for safe working conditions
U.S. oil workers are staging the biggest strike in 35 years, fighting for adequate wages and safe working conditions. Ed Schultz and Leo Gerard discuss.
The courting of Canadian Senator Ted Cruz
U.S. Steel: Unfairly traded imports to blame for McKeesport, Texas idle
United States Steel Corp. CEO Mario Longhi and Leo Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers, discuss the challenges the steel industry is facing due to unregulated foreign imports of tubular products at U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in West Mifflin. In July, U.S. Steel and other domestic steel manufacturers filed a petition with the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission to seek antidumping relief. U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said about 75 percent of the Commerce Department’s total ongoing trade remedy investigations are steel-related.