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.
2017 marks 30 years since Women of Steel began in District 6 and we are celebrating with a D6 Women’s conference July 23-25 in Toronto. The Women of Steel program began as a way to support women’s involvement and leadership within our union. Women of Steel was created in District 6, but has since spread […]
The USW will provide some financial support to Steelworkers of Aboriginal ancestry who have suffered the loss of a family member and want to attend and/or give testimony at a hearing (or truth finding gathering) of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Apotheke Vienna Austria The USW has named a Coordinator to […]
OTTAWA – The United Steelworkers union (USW) has told a parliamentary committee that ensuring economic security for women is dependent on many factors, from better access to unionization, pay equity legislation, secure pensions, child care and putting a stop to gendered violence. “Every day we fight for the rights of women through collective bargaining,” says […]
Closing the gender wage gap, adequate funding for affordable child care, and action on pensions and care-giver leaves are some of the measures women need to be economically secure. That’s what USW researcher Meg Gingrich told the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women which had invited the USW to testify, on […]
