How Americans Can Buy American
How Americans Can Buy American is filled with extensive lists of virtually every imaginable brand of food or household item, complete with up-to-date information on where each company is based. How Americans Can Buy American is a solid, serviceable, consumer-oriented reference and one that should be on the computer favorites of every American union ...... more

USW Organizing Coordinator Honored at Nevada AFL-CIO Convention
“The best way to build power within the Local Union is to increase membership,” said John Goins, from USW Local 711A. Last month, at the Nevada State AFL-CIO Convention, John Goins, an Organizing Coordinator for United Steelworkers (USW) Local 711A was presented with the Mike O’Callaghan/United Way Teamwork Award. The conference was ...... more

USW Associates' Greater Tucson Chapter Donates to Local 937 Cause
Vince Rabago (left), Vice President of the USW Associates' Chapter No. 1 of Tucson, Arizona, on July 16th, 2009, presented Ian Robertson, President of USW Local 937, with donations to the miners in Cananea, Sonora, who are striking against Grupo Mexico. The USW Associates' Greater Tucson Chapter collected and delivered a total of $245.00 to be forwarded ...... more

The USW Welcomes Chapter No. 1 of the Great Tucson Chapter of Associate Members
On June 17th, 2009, a meeting of the United Steelworkers (USW) Associate Chapter No. 1 meeting in Tucson for the newly chartered Great Tucson Chapter of Associate Members. Seated L-R: Andrea Dalessandro (Secretary); Georgette Escobar, Rosanna Gabaldon (At-Large Ex. Bd. Member); standing L-R: Jim Hannley (Treasurer), Grant Winston (President), Steven ...... more

$1.4 Million "Lunch Money" Settlement for California Steelworkers
The USW reached a settlement in a lawsuit against Riverside Cement Company and TXI, requiring the company to pay out $1.4 million to all USW-represented employees at its Oro Grande and Crestmore facilities. The payments will compensate employees for missed and on-duty meal and rest periods. In addition, former employees who worked at the two facilities ...... 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

Fallen Oregon Workers Remembered on April 28
Workers Memorial Day observed with dedication of memorial On Tuesday, April 28, 2009 outside the Labor and Industries Building on the Capitol Mall in Salem, OR, the Oregon AFL-CIO coordinated a Workers Memorial Day Service which featured a dedication of the newly constructed Fallen Worker Memorial and the reading of the names of Oregon workers who died ...... more

Making Our Future Work-Colorado Style
Pueblo,CO: Standing before the Rocky Mountain Steel Works and surrounded by approximately 100 Steelworkers and other union brothers and sisters, Colorado House of Representatives Sal Pace, (D-Pueblo) announced the introduction of House Bill 09-1302 on March 7th. The bill would require state agencies that purchase steel products to give a preference ...... more

District 12 USW Local Unions Honor Martin Luther King
District 12 Women of Steel and Los Angeles area USW Local Unions Honor Martin Luther King by Marching in the Los Angeles MLK Parade. They also honored working families by spreading the word that the 111th congress must pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) asking specifically that Senator Feinstein re-commit her support to pass the EFCA. Over 5000 ...... more

Locals in District 12 Provide for Those in Need
United Steelworkers (USW) Local 6163 in Albany, Oregon, Local 392 in the Salt Lake City and Local 9518 in Maywood, California provide their communities with a healthy dose of community spirit. ...... more

The Busy Women of Steel Elves from Local 7600
Women of Steel at United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7600 were busier than Santa’s elves this month. On December 2, they shopped with fund raising money for toys and gifts for USW Adopt-A-Families. On December 4, they traveled to Pedley Elementary School located in a very poor neighborhood ...... more

Local 338 Commended For PAC Contributions
PAC Awards A $10,000 Winner United Steelworkers (USW) International Political Action Committee Coordinator, Mike Scarver commended Local 338 members for their participation for their work with PAC. "Local 338 is considered a top contributor on a national scale", he said. He also issued a challenge to the local to match or increase their 2007 ...... more

Solidarity in Henderson
The first on-the-ground joint action between the United Steelworkers and the labor union from United Kingdom and Ireland called “Unite the Union” occurred in Henderson, Nev. on Jan. 24, in support of some 400 members of Local 4856 employed at TIMET, whose contract expires on January 31. As some 200 Henderson workers marched from the roadway ...... more

Communicators Train in District 12
Director Terry Bonds has always placed a high priority on training for his staff and members in District 12. When the requests for editor training began to grow, he had Sub Director Dave Kins and District 12 Education Coordinator, Chris Youngmark, set up a training course for those communicators. The training took place in Covina, Calif. on September ...... more

Nuclear Weapons Sites Continue to Fail Monitoring Workers
Sick former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant workers in Colorado were told last June that those employed at the plant after 1966 could not receive expedited compensation and medical care because radiation monitoring had improved since the 1950s and early 1960s and there were adequate exposure records. ...... more

China's Auto Exports Quadruple
According to statistics of export of automobile in the first half of 2006 released yesterday, export volume of automobile with China's brand amounted to 20,020, up by 466.8% year-on-year. Export volume of automobile with China�fs brand constituted nearly 60% of total export made in China. Statistics of Automobile Branch of CCCME (China Chamber of Commerce ...... more