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.
A third of the workers surveyed had experienced domestic violence at least once in their lives. Just over half of these (53.8%) said that the violence followed them up to the workplace door and often inside it, too. Workers reported being stalked at or near the workplace by a violent ex-partner. They received abusive calls, […]
This is the 25th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, and we have many reasons to pause and reflect. In 1989, a man murdered 14 young female engineering students at the École Polytechnique, just for daring to believe that they could break out of gender stereotypes. Violence is still too present in the lives of Canada’s […]
Join the call for a public inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. The RCMP has reported close to 1,200 cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women and girls between 1980 and 2012. That same report highlighted the fact that this number is disproportionately high, showing how Aboriginal women and girls make […]
A national awareness campaign aims to raise awareness about the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Murdered and Missing Women Awareness Campaign Apotheke Frankfurt DE
