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The USW Wood Council was formed when the Executive of the IWA selected the United Steelworkers and negotiated a merger that took effect on September 1, 2004. A critical part of the merger negotiations was the creation of the Steelworkers IWA Council, representing and coordinating the interests of the former IWA local unions in the areas of safety and health, collective bargaining, organizing and political action. By 2006, the IWA Council adopted the moniker "Wood Council."
The USW will ramp up efforts to organize education and health care workers, security officers, telecommunications professionals and other white-collar workers, delegates to the 2022 Constitutional Convention directed.
USW convention delegates unanimously approved resolutions on Day 4 of the USW International Convention, to advance the union’s fight for safer and healthier workplaces.
“Everybody’s Union definitely includes our retirees,” said USW SOAR Coordinator Julie Stein.
"Every time you fight for better wages or good jobs ... for better working conditions, you are improving the working conditions of your members, but really of all workers.” – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, at the USW International Convention in Las Vegas
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“When we need members to show up for workers, Steelworkers are always there,” said Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, during her address to the 2022 Constitutional Convention.
The USW has strengthened the nation and its economy for decades and is in the process of doing it again through the work of its members, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says.
Delegates to the 2022 Constitutional Convention redoubled the USW’s commitment to organizing.
International President Tom Conway opened the USW’s 2022 Constitutional Convention on Monday, Aug. 8, with an address that celebrated the union’s victories and recommitted the USW to leading the fight for better lives for workers in the coming years.
Nearly 3,000 USW members and allies will meet for the union’s International Constitutional Convention next week in Las Vegas to chart the future of North America’s largest industrial union.
This new network provides a confidential space for women in industry to meet, discuss issues of common interest, share ideas and support one another.
The 3rd National Gathering of Indigenous Steelworkers will take place in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on October 5-6, 2022.
Women of Steel are Raising the Bar! After two years of the pandemic, we’re looking forward to get together again as Steelworkers and as Women of Steel!
Wood Council Chairperson
Jeff Bromley