USW Calls Affirmative Preliminary Anti-Subsidy Duty
The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s decision to impose preliminary countervailing duties on new pneumatic off-the-road (OTR) tires from China as benefiting from government subsidies. “Yesterday’s decision is just one step towards holding producers in China to the same ...... more

Steelworkers at TIMET Form Unity Council
The United Steelworkers (USW) announced today that a unity council has been formed by workers at both TIMET plants in the United States where the union represents workers employed by the company, the world's largest supplier of high quality titanium metal products. USW District 12 Director Terry Bonds will serve as chairman and USW District 1 Director David McCall ...... more

Meridian Could Be Slapped with Steelworkers’ Back-Pay Claim
The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that it has filed a complaint against Meridian Automotive Systems, Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio because the company violated the federal Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act when it did not provide adequate notice to its USW-represented workforce before laying them off permanently....... more

USW Members Ratify 5-Year Contract with REP
The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that members of six local unions at five Republic Engineered Products (REP) plants have ratified a five-year contract. Union members reviewed the tentative agreement reached last month with their local and international negotiating committees before voting by mail in the secret ballot election. The USW represents approximately 2,000 hourly production and maintenance and office and technical employees at REP facilities ...... more

Steelworkers Announce Tentative Agreement with Meridian
The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that the union’s negotiating committee has tentatively accepted a collective bargaining agreement with Meridian Automotive Systems, Inc. that could end a 15-month lockout at the company’s Jackson, Ohio plant. The union also said, however, that Meridian on Thursday confirmed that the company plans to close the facility by the end of the year. “Meridian has acted against the best interests of our members, our communities and its own stakeholders in its decision to abandon production in Jackson ...... more

USW Hosts Presidential Candidates’ Forum on Renewing American Manufacturing
Working families and communities throughout the U.S. have been devastated by the demise of manufacturing. To keep America strong, the U.S. must develop a public policy strategy to renew a manufacturing base that creates good paying jobs for workers and a solid tax base for communities....... more

USW Will Seek Unlawful Bargaining Charge Against Meridian
The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that the union will file charges against Meridian Automotive Systems, Inc., with Region 9 of the National Labor Relations Board for what the union believes to be unfair labor practices at the bargaining table. Over 300 USW members have been locked out at Meridian’s Jackson, Ohio plant since April 2006 while the union has bargained in good faith with the company for a contract that would return the members of its Local 820L to their jobs....... more

Prescription Benefits Increase for Wheeling-Pitt Retirees, Spouses
The United Steelworkers (USW) today announced a benefit increase for all Medicare eligible Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel retirees who lost their health coverage when the company reorganized under Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection and have enrolled in the Wheeling-Pitt Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association’s (VEBA) Advantra programs, effective July 1, 2007. These improvements to the VEBA’s prescription drug benefits will place a flat co-payment on drugs ...... more

Sick of Losing Jobs to Unfair Trade, Steelworkers Fight Back
Sick of Losing Jobs to Unfair Trade, Steelworkers Fight Back Union to Sponsor Forum on Trade and American Manufacturing Jobs For Immediate Release June 13, 2007 SALEM, Ohio-- The United Steelworkers (USW) today announced that the union will sponsor a public forum to discuss the impact that unfair and illegal trade have had on American manufacturing ...... more

USW Obtains Payment to Retirees of General Fireproofing
The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that the hourly retirees of General Fireproofing are receiving $840,000 on a claim advanced by the USW to account for the value of negotiated health insurance benefits terminated shortly after the company entered Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 1990. The USW expects a second disbursement to retirees later this year, though the amount has not yet been determined. "Over the many years and despite the all of the delays ...... more