No Concessionary Bargaining
Win-win bargaining between Outokumpu Stainless Tubing and USW Local 7752 in Wildwood, Fla., resulted in a new four-year, 10-month contract that contains no concessions on contract language and many improvements. Bargaining this time was smooth compared to the last contract that workers obtained after going on strike eight to nine weeks. Management knew ...... more

USW Slams Feds for Turning Blind Eye to Public Health Threat
The union representing hourly workers at Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., (NFS) in Erwin, Tenn., said today it has many “troubling concerns” with the recent study by a federal government toxics agency regarding the plant’s impact on area residents and the environment. The United Steelworkers (USW) criticized the recent study by the Agency for Toxic Substances ...... more

Stan Johnson Succeeds Connie Entrekin as USW, District 9 Director
The United Steelworkers today announced that Stan Johnson has been sworn in as director of the union’s District 9 to succeed Director Connie Entrekin who will be working as a special assistant to International President Leo W. Gerard. Johnson, who was named by Entrekin as his assistant director in January, 2005, took the oath of office today during a meeting of the union’s International Executive Board in Beaumont, Texas...... more

USW Intends to Sue Giant Cement Holding Inc.
USW Intends to Sue Giant Cement Holding Inc. Union Demands Accurate Chemical Reporting; Penalty Could Be $6 Billion For Immediate Release October 16, 2006 Summerville, SC – Today the United Steelworkers (USW) notified Giant Cement Holding, Inc. (GCHI) that the union is ready to sue to correct widespread environmental reporting problems at the company’s ...... more

Tennessee Steelworkers Join Hundreds In Protest Of NLRB Kentucky River Decision
It was a funeral to remember on Friday, Oct. 13. A small brass band of Musicians union members, dressed in black, played somber New Orleans-style funeral music, and led a procession of several hundred union and community members wearing black armbands and Mardi Gras beads from the state capital to the regional National Labor Relations office in downtown ...... more

U.S. Labor Board Issues Complaint Against Nuclear Fuels Services’ Contractor For Unfair Firings
United Steelworkers Local 677 members on strike at Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., in Erwin, Tenn., today announced that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint that two contract workers at the nuclear plant were unfairly fired for refusing to do work for which they were insufficiently trained. An investigation by NLRB Region 10 in Atlanta found ...... more

Mecklenburg County Commissioners Issue Support Resolution for Charlotte's Continental Tire Workers
(Charlotte, NC) -- United Steelworkers (USW) Local 850 members received public support last night in their struggle against their Charlotte employer, Continental Tire. A resolution was passed by the Mecklenburg County Commissioners acknowledging that Continental Tire has abandoned most of its North American operations, leaving thousands of workers, ...... more

Beams Awarded Scholarship
Tiffany Beams was recently awarded a Tino Fulimeni Memorial Scholarship from the Institute for Career Development in the amount of $600. Tiffany is the daughter of Dexter Beams, Local 351L, Tuscaloosa, AL. Her application was chosen at random from a pool of more than 250 children and grandchildren of Steelworkers who applied. She subsequently met the ...... more

Award Winning District 9 USPA Communicators
The United Steelworkers Press Association Conference was held August 13-16, 2006 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The biennial conference features education for local newsletter editors, communicators and webmasters. Culminating the event is an awards ceremony highlighting the local union communicator’s skills. The following local union publications were ...... more

Major Mishaps at Nuclear Facility: Steelworkers Union Calls for Investigation
The United Steelworkers (USW) is calling upon the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to investigate alleged safety and production problems at Nuclear Fuel Services’ (NFS) facility in Erwin, Tennessee. “We are urging the NRC to investigate whether NFS is putting worker or community safety, product quality, and our nation’s security at risk by having ...... more

Corporate “Rights” vs. Community Responsibility:
Corporate “Rights” vs. Community Responsibility: Striking Steelworkers oppose inexperienced replacement workers at sensitive nuclear fuel plant in Tennessee, supplier for US Navy For Immediate Release September 1, 2006 PITTSBURGH - Striking workers at the Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) facility in Erwin, Tennessee remain united and determined to gain ...... more

Concerns Raised About Gerdau Ameristeel’s Toxic Emissions
An initial inquiry into an air pollution permit renewal at the Gerdau Ameristeel plant on 1919 Tennessee Ave., in Knoxville, shows that it may have technical problems and would allow significant levels of toxic chemicals to be released to the community’s air, possibly in violation of federal air quality standards. “Based on the company’s Toxic Release ...... more

Bridgestone-Firestone Workers Blast Company for Stopping Humanitarian Aid Collection
Halts gate collection aimed at helping workers in Liberia United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1055 in LaVergne, Tennessee angrily denounced local plant management's decision to prevent its members from conducting a voluntary gate collection to help struggling rubber farm workers in Liberia. A decade-long civil war has ravaged the country and workers there, ...... more