The Women of Steel program gives women in our union the tools and skills we need to fight for and achieve equality and take leadership roles in our workplaces and in the USW.
Steelworkers pride ourselves on being the health and safety union. Women of Steel are pointing to hazards and health issues they face as women workers. Let’s make women’s health and safety issues a priority for action!
Bargaining language and other tools to take action against domestic violence, harassment and other forms of violence.
At the largest ever International/ National Women’s Conference in Toronto in 2018, women from right across the union came together to build a bold plan of action to help guide our union and our activism at work and in our communities.
Long-time government policies and deeply rooted social beliefs have put Canada’s Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit/LGBTQ+ people at greater risk of violence. USW helped in the call for a National inquiry, because an injury to one is an injury to all, and because Steelworkers and our family members are among the missing and murdered.
In case you missed it – the USW is launching our new union-wide campaign to better take on women’s health and safety concerns and amplify women’s voices in the workplace! Join Women of Steel and health and safety activists, National Director Ken Neumann, and others for the launch of Raising the Bar on Women’s Health […]
A global pandemic is among us. Civil unrest is among us. Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2SIA+ people are suffering at disproportionately greater rates than many other groups in society. In these unnerving times, the United Steelworkers demand action on the 231 Calls for Justice contained in ‘Reclaiming Power and Place,’ the final report from the […]
In June 2019, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its final report. It includes 231 Calls for Justice designed to end the violence against Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit/LGBTQ+ people and promote their equality. At that time, our union promised to press governments for swift action, and began to […]
United Steelworkers Local 9346 Women of Steel have made their annual donation to help prepare local children for school. 90 backpacks filled with school supplies were donated to underprivileged youth in the Elk Valley and the Crowsnest Pass Co-chair Sarah Thompson says the funding for the donation needed to come from their head office as […]
