Steelworkers

  • Drug Tests Followed by Steelworker Suicides: How Should a Union Defend Members?
    Mischa Gaus
    Mar 10 2010 - 7:11am

    As Steelworkers at the Granite City Works outside St. Louis finally got back to work after a long idle, management surprised them with a new drug-test policy that's wreaked havoc.

  • Steelworkers Locked Out at Carquest
    Labor Notes Staff
    Dec 21 2009 - 10:05pm

    Nearly 70 Steelworkers at a Carquest parts warehouse in Bay City, Michigan, have been locked out since September 25. The company brought a stack of proposals as big as the contract itself this summer, but stormed out when the union refused to yield as much as management wanted.

  • The View from Ontario, 137 Days into a Mine Strike
    Yannick Rivard
    Nov 26 2009 - 12:14pm

    Emotions are running high as the strike at Vale Inco’s mines closes in on the six-month mark. Strikers are fighting the profitable company's attempt to use the economic crisis to shift power.

  • Steelworkers Take Fight at Canadian Mine Global

    Steelworkers at nickel giant Vale Inco’s operations in Sudbury and Voisey Bay in Canada have been on strike since July. After rejecting contracts calling for deep concessions, Steelworkers (USW) members there find themselves in the midst of one of the largest battles in their history.

  • Steelworkers Consider Worker-run Coops

    The Steelworkers announced a plan October 30 to create worker co-operatives in North America, which overturn the traditional workplace division between workers and bosses by having worker-owners make most decisions on a “one worker, one vote” basis. What's the union up to?

  • Beyond ‘Buy American’: Sorting Allies and Enemies

    Judy Ancel

    The rampage of job-killing is creating desperation among workers and their unions. They are being seduced by “Buy American” and steering toward economic nationalism—a giant distraction that only confuses workers about who our allies are, who our enemies are, and what will advance our own interests. . . .


    Yes
  • ‘Manufacture American’ to Create Jobs

    Al Cholger

    In the wreckage of this old economy, there is a vision of a new one worth fighting for. It is time for a new Social Industrial Revolution that fixes our bridges and builds our rail with concrete and steel made in mills in our heartland.


    Yes