Canadian-made steel is a win for jobs, communities and the climate.
Without a solid Canadian steel industry, we’ll lose good, community-sustaining jobs and see a rise in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Since 1984, the share of imports has climbed from 15.5% of the Canadian steel market to 61% in 2023. This level of import penetration is unsustainable.
The Canadian steel industry provides 23,000 direct and 100,000 indirect jobs in Canada. Meanwhile, Canadian steel produces roughly three times less greenhouse gas emissions than imported steel.
Using lower carbon Canadian-made steel could reduce up to 900 million tonnes of carbon pollution annually, according to Blue Green Canada and Clean Energy Canada.
Canada needs to match massive physical infrastructure investments we have seen in the United States and the Inflation Reduction Act’s ties to use of clean steel: IRA contains $433 billion in new investments and spending, $369 billion of which is dedicated to energy security and climate change programs.
Join the campaign to Stand up for Steel now, by calling on your MP to support:
By John Catto, president, Local 6571 The Gerdau steel plant in Whitby, ON produces and markets steel; mainly in the form of rebar and merchant bar for the construction industry. Local 6571 has about 400 hourly workers and there are approximately 200 management or salaried personnel at the location as well. In 2009, we were […]
TORONTO – A recent decision by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) to renew an existing order on dumped steel products from China, Turkey and South Korea is a significant breakthrough and proof that the union has a key role in determining injury to Canada’s domestic steel industry, say leaders of the United Steelworkers union […]
REGINA, VANCOUVER, TORONTO – National and Western Canada leaders of the United Steelworkers union (USW) say news of pending layoffs at Evraz Steel in Regina is the result of the federal government’s failure to commit to use Canadian products in Canadian infrastructure projects. Steelworkers’ jobs at the Regina pipe mill are in jeopardy after it […]
OTTAWA – The United Steelworkers union (USW) will take an active role in investigations being launched by Canadian authorities into illegal dumping of foreign steel into Canada by several countries. “Our union will continue to aggressively defend the jobs of steelworkers across Canada who for too long have been harmed by steel imports dumped into […]
Canada’s Parliament must act NOW to ensure the long-term health of the Canadian steel industry and the key jobs it provides.
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