HAMILTON – The federal Liberal government’s “deafening silence” is sending a resounding message to 20,000 U.S. Steel Canada retirees suffering from the elimination of their crucial health benefits, the United Steelworkers (USW) says. “Steel industry workers and pensioners were hoping for change when the Trudeau Liberals replaced the Harper Conservatives,” said USW Ontario Director Marty […]
For over 20 years, USW Local 6500 has awarded bursaries to sons and daughters of current and former members. This year, the local awarded the following Post-Secondary Education Scholarships to: Kailee Cacciotti – Robert Carlin Bursary Pharmacie Marseille Mia Tullio – Brent Pollock Bursary Jennifer Makela – Edgar Burton Bursary Mykeal Kennedy – Homer Seguin […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomes the release of the Interim Report from Ontario’s Changing Workplaces Review. Issued today, the report sets out pathways to action that would improve and modernize Ontario’s outdated Employment Standards Act (ESA) and Ontario Labour Relations Act (OLRA). The report summarizes the many challenges facing employees in Ontario, including […]
TORONTO – As U.S. Steel Canada spends millions on bonuses and salary increases for company management, the United Steelworkers (USW) filed a motion in Ontario Superior Court today seeking reinstatement of crucial health benefits for thousands of retirees. The USW also filed a motion asking the court to reject U.S. Steel Canada’s plan to spend […]
Hamilton Spectator EditorialBy Howard Elliott U.S. Steel retirees, workers and the union that represents them are sick and tired and mad as hell. In their attempt to get fairness and equity on things like pension protection, they’ve been stymied at every turn during restructuring and bankruptcy protection proceedings. In determined desperation, they have now demanded […]
SAULT STE. MARIE – The United Steelworkers (USW) learned today that KPS Capital Partners (KPS) is withdrawing from the bid for Essar Steel Algoma Inc. (“Algoma”) and that certain of Algoma’s term lenders will be pursuing the bid independently. This is the latest twist in a mismanaged Sale and Investment Solicitation Process (SISP). The process so far […]
By Steve Arnold An American hedge fund that planned to merge Stelco and Algoma into a new Canadian steel firm has pulled out of the bidding. A source familiar with the situation said KPS Capital Partners, of New York, dropped its bids for both companies over its “inability to come to an agreement with the […]
HAMILTON – The United Steelworkers (USW) is condemning a decision to eliminate Essar Global as a potential buyer of U.S. Steel Canada operations in Hamilton and Nanticoke. “This is a potentially devastating decision for thousands of workers, pensioners and the communities that are most affected by the restructuring of our steel industry,” said Marty Warren, […]
TORONTO – A CBC report into the launching of a criminal investigation into a workplace fatality earlier this year in Ottawa is proof that a campaign led by the United Steelworkers (USW) is making slow but steady progress toward proper enforcement of the 2004 Westray Law. “The death of Olivier Bruneau appears to be both […]
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 […]
OTTAWA – Thursday’s demand in the House of Commons by NDP MP Scott Duvall (Hamilton-Mountain) must be acted on if the federal government has any intention at all of saving Canada’s steel industry, says United Steelworkers’ Ontario/Atlantic Director Marty Warren. “Mr. Duvall has repeated our sustained call for a release of details on the secret […]
This year’s National Aboriginal Day is unlike any other we have celebrated before. It’s clear: celebrating Aboriginal peoples means taking action for social justice. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has shown us, in plain language and powerful detail, how residential schools tried to destroy Aboriginal identity and cultures. I have a copy of the Commission’s […]
In June this year, Steelworkers from all across Canada join with LGBT communities to celebrate Pride Month. As a union, there are many opportunities in our communities to take part in LGBT activities. One of the largest Pride events in the country is Pride Month in Toronto, including the Trans March, the Dyke March, and […]
LABRADOR CITY – Approximately 1,400 members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 5795 at the Rio-Tinto-owned Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) in Labrador City are increasingly frustrated by the company’s lack of trust and respect after repeated efforts at goodwill have failed. The District and International levels of the USW stand in solidarity with its […]
TORONTO – A steady stream of widows or family members affected by the decades-long use of aluminum powder in Ontario mines is a clear sign that an injustice continues against workers whose health was affected by the use of what was known as McIntyre Powder, says United Steelworkers’ (USW) Ontario/Atlantic Director Marty Warren. “This injustice […]
Steelworkers! Celebrate pride in a community near you. Events are listed in date order. April 29-May 8, 2016 Guelph May 27-29, 2016Elliot Lake May 28-June 4, 2016St. Catharines – Pride Niagara June 1-5, 2016Durham Region June 4-11, 2016 Barrie June 6-12Timmins June 11-19York Region June 18, 2016 Thunder Bay – Thunder Pride June 18Brantford June 18-19, […]
District 6 – Rick Bertrand, Local 6500, Ontario Warsaw-Apteka.com Brain and heart disease deaths will hopefully one day be a tragedy of the distant past if it’s up to Local 6500 and its president, Rick Bertrand. The USW local presented a check for $65,000 to the Sam Bruno Scanner Fund in 2014, the single largest […]
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