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.
Volunteers from United Steelworkers Local 9346 Women of Steel gathered at the Sparwood Union Hall on the afternoon of Aug. 26, getting ready to go back to school. They packed backpacks full of school supplies to give to students in need of supplies for the upcoming school year. This if the fourth year that the […]
A coalition of concerned organisations, led by global unions including the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), has formed to express its shock over a ‘strategic partnership’ between UN Women and Uber, the ‘ride booking’ app provider. The coalition took the message to the floor of the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status […]
Happy International Women’s Day! March 8 is a day to celebrate the gains women have made toward full equality. Unions like the United Steelworkers are proud of our contribution to those gains, and we are committed to doing more. Because there’s still much more to be done. Women need good jobs. Today more women than […]
By Marlene Leung Canada is obligated under international human rights laws to prevent violence against indigenous women by taking measures to address poverty and other socio-economic factors, according to a new report. The report, released Monday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, said Canada’s history […]
