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.
USW salutes the hard work and determination of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and of the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, who never forgot and never gave up demanding justice. We have high expectations for the national inquiry. Its recommendations, and resulting government action, must improve the lives and safety of […]
Elizabeth Shilton is a senior fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace. She is a 2016 YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction. Every Monday morning, a Toronto daily newspaper publishes a set of tables showing data on financial issues such as interest rates, mortgage rates and the monthly annuity payments Canadians […]
There’s significant agreement on what causes the wage gap between men and women, according to a summary of submissions made to Ontario’s Gender Wage Gap Steering Committee. There’s even some agreement on the solutions. USW and 50 other organizations made submissions to the committee, which also received survey responses from over 1,400 individuals in the […]
Canadian women still take home, on average, 30% less each year than what men earn. We call that shortfall “the gender wage gap.” And it’s even greater if you are a racialized woman (over 35%) or an Aboriginal woman (over 40%). The gender wage gap has been with us a long time! Even now, when […]
