Despite all our gains for workers, a gender pay gap persists. The labour movement, feminist activists and those who care about human rights are advocates for strong pay equity laws to fix the systemic undervaluing of women’s work.
Young Canadian activists played a significant role in the 2024 USW NextGen conference in Pittsburgh, Penn.
Catch up on some recent collective bargaining successes by USW local unions that have negotiated health and safety improvements, wage increases and better benefits and working conditions.
USW local unions and activists have a new tool to help build relationships and engage with Indigenous Steelworkers and communities.
Temporary Foreign Workers occupy year-round jobs across numerous sectors. Their permits are tied to a single employer and they often live apart from their families back home.
The USW International Civil and Human Rights Conference wove together themes from the civil rights movement and its vibrant history in Detroit, tackling the many forms of racism, Indigenous rights and collective bargaining, being involved in elections, immigration and migrant workers’ rights, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights and organizing within our unions and communities.
Workers are joining the United Steelworkers union for better wages, more fairness and collective power.
The USW’s campaign to enforce the Westray law and end workplace deaths and injuries.
The United Steelworkers union is celebrating a historic victory for workers across Canada, as the anti-scab legislation passed the final stage of the legislative process in the Parliament of Canada, receiving Royal Assent.
A historic, unanimous vote in the House of Commons on the proposed anti-scab bill (officially known as Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code and the Canada Industrial Relations Board Regulations) has taken it a significant step further, by allowing it to be studied in committee. While this type of legislation, designed to protect the rights of federally regulated workers during a labour dispute, has been proposed several times in the federal Parliament, this is the first time it has taken this step.
The historic agreement on pharmacare between the federal Liberal government and the New Democrats marks a monumental step forward in Canadian health care. The introduction of pharmacare legislation (Bill C-64 – An Act respecting pharmacare) in the House of Commons gives a beacon of hope to millions of people across the country.
Gender-based violence in the workplace can have severe consequences for those affected, including physical and mental health issues, decreased productivity and career setbacks. It also undermines efforts to promote gender equality and create inclusive work environments.
After years of Conservative rule in many parts of the country, workers have pushed back and are now advancing policies that make their lives better.
SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Quebec – Workers at the Termaco sheet metal fabrication plant in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu are on strike as the company refuses to offer cost-of-living wage adjustments to address years of rampant inflation. The 90 workers, members of the Syndicat des Métallos/United Steelworkers union (USW) began their strike Monday. The workers have suffered significant losses in purchasing […]
The new Steel Pride Working group kicked off its first meeting in December 2023, bringing together Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual + (2SLGBTQIA+) Steelworkers from across the three Canadian districts. The initiative was born out of a resolution to the National Policy Conference in April 2023, which called on the union to create a national working group for 2SLGBTQIA+ Steelworkers.
Following the ilmenite trail for the defence of rights in Madagascar Since 2019 the Steelworkers Humanity Fund (SHF) has been supporting a project aimed at strengthening union capacity and building solidarity with union partners representing employees at the QMM mine, which is owned by the multinational Rio Tinto. It is mostly ilmenite that is mined […]
Service disruptions on 21 and 22 June and eight future dates.
Date: June 4, 2024 To: All District 3 Local Unions From: Scott Lunny, Director Re: District 3 Conference – Meetings, Caucuses and Registration I write to remind local unions to submit their delegate registrations for the District 3 Conference “Better Work for Everyone,” taking place October 28-31, 2024, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When selecting your delegates, […]