MONTERREY – United Steelworkers (USW) members from Canada joined 32 members of Los Mineros, the National Miners’ and Metalworkers’ Union of Mexico, to confront Crown Holdings directors at the corporation’s annual shareholder meeting Thursday. Crown’s shareholders’ meeting strangely took place at its recently acquired can manufacturing plant in Monterrey, after being held for over a […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW), representing thousands of employees and pensioners, is today asking Ontario Superior Court to open a secret deal between the federal government and U.S. Steel Canada. The secret deal was struck in 2011 when the Conservative government dropped its legal challenge of U.S. Steel’s broken commitments on production and employment […]
By Steve Arnold The Harper government is moving to keep the lid on the terms of its secret deal to drop a lawsuit against U.S. Steel. Acting for Industry Canada, the federal attorney general has filed legal documents opposing a motion by the city, the United Steelworkers and retirees seeking release of the full text […]
TORONTO, – United Steelworkers (USW) Ontario Director Marty Warren today welcomed the release of the Mining Health, Safety and Prevention Advisory Group’s report aimed at improving safety in the province’s mining industry. The advisory group, created in December 2013 by the Ontario government, issued a final report including 18 recommendations to improve workplace health and […]
The city is joining U.S. Steel Canada workers and retirees to demand the release of the secret agreement that ended a lawsuit over the company’s broken employment and production promises. In a motion to be heard in Superior Court on Monday, the group argues they have a stake in USSC’s restructuring but are handicapped without […]
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By Carol Mulligan, The Sudbury Star A committee of representatives from Vale Ltd. and United Steelworkers Local 6500 is working to ensure the 58 recommendations from a joint investigation into the death last year of a millwright are implemented and that history doesn’t repeat. Mike Bond, chair of health and safety for USW Local 6500, […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, – Employees of S&T Industrial Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie have joined the United Steelworkers (USW). In a vote certified by the Ontario Ministry of Labour, more than 90 per cent of employees casting ballots voted to join the USW. The new bargaining unit covers more than 100 S&T employees, who work […]
The United Steelworkers District 6 will be holding their conference on August 17 – 20, 2015, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. online pharmacy https://digestivehealth.ws/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/albuterol.html no prescription Welcome to District 6 USW 2015 Conference page.Please click on the conference website link below to register. The conference will be held from August 17 – 20, 2015 at […]
ALEXANDRIA, Ont. – The United Steelworkers (USW) and Alexandria Mouldings have reached a new collective agreement that strengthens the manufacturing base and economic outlook in this eastern Ontario community. USW members ratified a three-year contract on Thursday covering 253 production and maintenance employees at three local Alexandria Mouldings plants. “Our union is optimistic about the […]
ALEXANDRIA, Ont. – The United Steelworkers (USW) and Alexandria Mouldings have reached a new collective agreement that strengthens the manufacturing base and economic outlook in this eastern Ontario community. USW members ratified a three-year contract on Thursday covering 253 production and maintenance employees at three local Alexandria Mouldings plants. “Our union is optimistic about the […]
Statement by Marty Warren, USW District 6 Director TORONTO – Unions need women and women need unions. The United Steelworkers celebrates International Women’s Day by honouring women’s achievements and continuing our fight for change. “In honour of International Women’s Day, I’m proud to recognize women’s achievements in the struggle for equality in Canada,” said Marty […]
TORONTO – Beer can workers forced into an 18-month labour dispute are picketing members of Ontario’s Liberal government who have completely ignored their appeals for support. On Tuesday striking employees of Crown Metal Packaging will be picketing and leafleting outside the constituency office of York West MPP Mario Sergio. Sergio represents the riding where the […]
By Rosie DiManno and Marco Chown Oved They called and called: ELIJAH! Hundreds of them, searching high and low, scanning homes and playgrounds, seeking especially those spots where a toddler may have been drawn: yards with swing sets out back, friendly refuges to a youngster’s eyes, the not-scary places. They looked for tiny bootprints in […]
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – United Steelworkers (USW) members employed at the Tenneco Automotive manufacturing plant in Cambridge have ratified a three-year collective agreement with the company. The new contract, which runs until February 2018, was ratified Wednesday by members of USW Local 2894. The USW represents approximately 430 employees at the Tenneco plant who manufacture vehicle […]
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TORONTO – Ontario beer drinkers are being urged to join a growing boycott of beer cans produced by a union-busting American corporation. The beer can boycott, endorsed by the Ontario Federation of Labour, is expanding this week with radio ads and Beer Store demonstrations in communities across the province on Saturday. The boycott supports Toronto […]