As Company Goes on Sales Block, Union Workers at EaglePicher Battery Plant in Joplin, Mo
Responding to news that EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, management has hired Lazard Middle Market, LLC, to market the company to prospective buyers, union workers at the battery plant are reminding all concerned of the unresolved labor dispute at the facility, and the union’s determination to fight for a fair agreement. ...... more

Despite Strong Profits, Kansas Gas Service Asking Workers to Sacrifice
Despite years of strong profits and the highest level of service by employees, Kansas Gas Service continues to ask workers in Kansas and Oklahoma to sacrifice pay, health care coverage and pension benefits. Contract negotiations have broken off between the company ...... more

USW, Supporters to Demonstrate at Wayzata Investment Partners Headquarters
Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) and community supporters will march on the headquarters of a Minnesota investment firm that has purchased a paper mill in Oregon and slashed wages and benefits for workers there. In June of this year, Wayzata Investment Partners bought the former Pope & Talbot paper mill in Halsey, Ore., and renamed it Cascade Pacific Pulp ...... more

Steelworkers Reach 4-year Agreement with Cleveland Cliffs
United Steelworkers (USW) announced today that a new tentative 4-year agreement has been reached with Cleveland Cliffs, a mining company employing some 2,500 USW members at four locations....... more

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 standards ...... more