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USW Commends Antidumping Tariffs for Paper Imports from Chinese, Indonesian and South Korean Producers

Gerardo Cajamarca of Colombia lives in Minnesota as an exile, but he’s also a USW organizer for global justice welcomed and supported by the members of USW District 11. As a trade union leader and human rights activist, he has a compelling personal story about why members of the U.S. Congress should not support the Bush Administration’s proposed free trade agreement. Here’s his profile and narrative....more

Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers (USW) cited the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announcement yesterday to place antidumping duties of up to 99.65 percent on coated free sheet, or glossy paper from China as “finally showing that enforcing trade rules can make a difference in defending American workers’ jobs and the ...more

Steelworkers File NAFTA Labor Complaint Against Mexico

U.S., Mexican and Canadian Labor Organizations Charge North Carolina with Violating NAFTA Labor Rules

The United Steelworkers (USW) today charged that the government of Mexico violated the NAFTA labor side agreement when it removed the leader of the National Mineworkers’ Union from office. In a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), the USW accuses Mexican labor authorities ...more

On Tuesday, October 17 more than two dozen labor organizations in Mexico, the United States and Canada, together representing several million workers, will jointly file a charge against the United States under the North American Agreement for Labor Cooperation (NAALC), the labor side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The ...more