As part of USW’s commitment to end violence against women and girls, Steelworkers activists will be making presentations to local, area council, and other meetings this fall and winter. For this purpose, please visit usw.ca/anti-violence for useful documents and links. We’ll engage members to send the message that violent attitudes and words, as well as acts, […]
TORONTO – United Steelworkers’ (USW) National Director Ken Neumann says the Liberals’ first Human Rights Impact Assessment Report (HRIA) on Colombia, tabled Wednesday to an empty House of Commons, remains as meaningless as those tabled by the previous government. “This requirement for a report was the Liberal opposition’s excuse for supporting the Canada-Colombia Free Trade […]
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TORONTO – Following the “Three Amigos” North American Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa, United Steelworkers (USW) representatives are calling on Canada, the United States and Mexico to pursue greater, coordinated trade enforcement to end global steel over-production. “While we welcome the Ottawa Summit agreement calling for an end to government subsidies that artificially maintain global excess […]
TORONTO – A deal for modest CPP expansion reached by Canada’s finance ministers still falls short of the needs of generations of Canadians, the United Steelworkers (USW) says. “The labour movement, with widespread public support, has been advocating for many years for doubling CPP benefits to meet the very real needs of generations of Canadians […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) is urging the country’s finance ministers to overcome nearly a decade of failure and finally implement a meaningful expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). “Failure is no longer an option. Millions of Canadians are counting on our federal and provincial leaders to end years of neglect and take […]
OTTAWA – United Steelworkers (USW) National Director Ken Neumann has welcomed Wednesday’s unanimous vote by the City of Ottawa to call for better enforcement of 2004 amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada, which hold corporate directors and executives criminally accountable for workplace death and injury. “To have Canada’s capital city mayor and councillors fully […]
TORONTO, MONTREAL, OTTAWA – United Steelworkers (USW) members at American Airlines operations in Canada have made significant gains in their first collective agreement following corporate and union mergers last year. More than 230 members of USW Local 1976 have ratified a five-year collective agreement that will reverse outsourcing and add unionized jobs, prioritize full-time jobs […]
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United Steelworkers National Director, Ken Neumann and the USW received recognition for the steadfast support and leadership in establishing the Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences (PCU-WHS). Neumann received a memento from Wolfgang Zimmermann, PCU-WHS President, during the USW National Policy Conference in Montreal. While the establishment of PCU-WHS as a unique and dedicated university […]
As Steelworkers, April 28th is the most solemn day in our calendar. It is the day we remember the men and women who have sacrificed their lives – not for wars in foreign lands – but for the sake of a job – to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads. Brothers […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomes criminal charges laid against Detour Gold for the June 2015 death of a worker at its Northern Ontario mine and hopes that the charges will be prosecuted as soon as possible, says USW Ontario Director Marty Warren. “These charges validate our union’s campaign for better enforcement of the […]
TORONTO – Return-to-work and disability-prevention programs are a Steelworkers priority with all 700 delegates to the United Steelworkers National Policy Conference in Montreal endorsing a policy resolution on the subject. United Steelworkers (USW) members approved a resolution calling on the union to “recognize and support the value in pursuing meaningful, effective, confidential and joint workplace […]
MONTREAL – Federal New Democratic Party Leader Tom Mulcair will address hundreds of labour activists on Tuesday as guest speaker on the opening day of the United Steelworkers (USW) National Policy Conference. WHAT: United Steelworkers (USW) National Policy Conference WHEN: April 5-8, 2016 WHERE: Centre Sheraton Montreal, 1201 Boulevard René-Lévesque West WHO: 600 USW activists […]
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OTTAWA – The success or failure of today’s federal budget depends on whether proposed spending is aimed at rebuilding Canadian manufacturing and preserving Canadian control over our economy, says Ken Neumann, National Director of the United Steelworkers (USW). “The Conservative government, through ill-conceived trade agreements and secret deals with foreign corporations, caused hundreds of thousands […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) congratulates the New Democratic Party for tabling legislation to modernize collective bargaining in Canada and stop the use of replacement workers in labour disputes. “The Steelworkers union welcomes these changes to the Canada Labour Code. If passed, this law will stop the unfairness of employers using replacement workers during […]