The USW is committed to promoting a clean, healthy environment, along with good community-supporting jobs today and for the future. We know that both are possible, which is why the union is out front on issues like North American procurement policies that prioritize sourcing from clean local industries, a fair and just transition for workers and their families, using energy and other natural resources more efficiently and reducing carbon.
USW advocates for putting working people at the centre of policies about the climate crisis, working alongside local Indigenous communities and those most affected to create solutions.
The USW is a founding partner of Blue Green Canada and the Blue Green Alliance in the U.S. Blue Green Canada brings together workers and environmental organizations to solve today’s environmental challenges in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving and equitable economy.
TORONTO – A cross-Canada awareness campaign is under way to find elderly former miners and their surviving family members who could be entitled to potentially life-changing compensation for industrial disease. The campaign stems from a ground-breaking decision by the Ontario government to finally recognize Parkinson’s disease as a compensable occupational illness linked to the use […]
Hon. Monte McNaughton Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development Ontario Dear Minister McNaughton, As the elected leader of the United Steelworkers (USW) union’s 75,000 members in Ontario, I am urgently requesting a meeting with you to address a disturbing threat to a successful job-adjustment program that helps laid-off workers find new employment. Our union […]
Statement from Myles Sullivan, USW District 6 Director Dear Steelworkers, Today I would like to share thoughts of optimism, gratitude and tremendous pride in our great union. At an installation ceremony this morning for United Steelworkers’ international officers in Pittsburgh, I was sworn in as Director of USW District 6 and officially became a member […]
