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Join us for our National Campaign Launch: Raising the Bar on Women’s Health and Safety

October 26, 2020

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 and Safety.

October 28 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET via Zoom and Facebook Live. It will be a bilingual event with interpretation available.

Register at:
usw.to/3hw

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