USW Local 7687 Answers a Call for Help
Members of United Steelworkers (USW) local 7687 take pride in their long history of helping people and groups in their community. Recently, they were able to return a favor to the York/Adams Chapter of the American Red Cross which has helped many members of local 7687 when they were in need. In August, Rona Elliot of the Machinists Union at local 175, ...... more

District 10 Steelworkers Families Enjoy Another Picnic Outing at Idlewild Park in Ligonier
United Steelworker (USW) District 10 members and family members came in droves to this summer’s union picnic at Idlewild Park. Continuing a tradition that was started by local unions in the western part of the state, the picnic included lots to eat, rides, swimming in the swimming pool, and a slew of door prizes and raffles for big-ticket prizes. ...... more

Colmar First Student, Drivers and Aids choose United Steelworkers
On June 4, 212 drivers, aids, trainers and fuelers, employed by First Student Inc., dispatched from the Colmar Trewigetown Road and Ambler Brookside Avenue locations who service the Central Bucks, North Penn and Whissahickon school districts, soundly voted for the United Steelworkers Union in a N.L.R.B. election. Organizer Vincent Smith leafleting driver ...... more

USW fact sheets, background, other info related to tire trade case against China
The United Steelworkers (USW) today announced the filing of a major trade case against the flood of imported consumer tires from China that have led to thousands of job losses and a growing number of plant closings throughout the U. S. Leo W. Gerard, USW international president, declared: “American workers are struggling to make it through the ...... more

Democrats Back Case to Curb Chinese Tires Amid Economic Woes
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Arlen Specter and other Democratic lawmakers backed a petition to limit Chinese tire imports, arguing that the case is a chance for President Barack Obama to chart a new course for U.S. trade policy. At a hearing of the U.S. International Trade Commission today, Specter of Pennsylvania joined Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio, ...... more

District 10 Rapid Response and EFCA
District 10 Rapid Response team members have been active this month attended rallies across Pennsylvania and delivering handwritten notes to Sen. Specter, calling on the senator to reverse his position on the Employee Free Choice Act a second time – the 29-year Senate veteran initially supported the legislation but last month announced that he ...... more

April Is Scouting For Food Month
The United Steelworkers is part of a community-wide effort to fight hunger. Each year our union participates in the Annual Scouting For Food Campaign, now underway for the month of April 2009. I am proud that our District 10 employees, local unions and SOAR chapters, our International headquarters employees, the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO and Central Labor Council ...... more

USW Local 2599 Pushing for Spport of Employee Free Choice Act
On Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Rapid Response Congressional Coordinator Jerry Green and members from Local 2599 attempted to deliver over 1,000 hand-written letters to Senator Specter at the Senator’s Allentown District Office asking the Senator to co-sponsor and support the Employee Free Choice Act. Local United Steelworkers chapter sounds off ...... more

Annual Ringing of the Bells by USW Local 7687 in York, PA
Sixteen members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7687 volunteered to ring the bells for the Salvation Army at four gates leading into BAE Systems in York, Pa. Beginning at 4:00 a.m. and ending at 9:00 p.m. members of the local, along with members of their Community Services Committee ...... more

Local 10-86 Steeling Christmas
On Saturday, December 13, United Steelworkers (USW) Local 10-86 and their Women of Steel Committee co-hosted a holiday Christmas party for the Christ's Home for Children at the Towamencin Firehouse on Bustard Road in Towamencin. The home is in Warrington, Pa. and takes care of unwanted disenfranchised children ranging in age from toddlers to teenagers. ...... more

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO "Unionism in America" Essay Contest
A message to Pennsylvania AFL-CIO affiliates from Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William M. George and Secretary-Treasurer, Richard W. Bloomingdale. Dear Brothers and Sisters: The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO is proud to announce its annual "Unionism in America" Essay Contest. Again this year three categories for the Essay Contest are being offered ...... more

As Economic Crisis Worsens, ‘Keep It Made in America’ Tour Crosses Pennsylvania
With our nation’s economic crisis front and center in the presidential campaign, local business and labor leaders, joined by elected officials, today kicked off a statewide tour of “Keep it Made in America” Town Hall meetings. Announced in the lobby of the United Steelworkers International headquarters by International Vice President ...... more

Why isn’t our economy working for us? (Video)
Phil Hughes, from USW Local 10-86, in yellow shirt, in this video discusses unionization, health care, free ...... more