QUEBEC CITY – The United Steelworkers welcomes today’s unanimous vote in the Quebec National Assembly calling for a resumption of collective bargaining to end a lockout of workers at the ABI aluminum smelter. Hundreds of locked-out workers from the ABI smelter in Bécancour travelled to Quebec City to demonstrate outside the National Assembly this morning […]
OTTAWA, MONTREAL and TORONTO – Mexican community leader Mariano Abarca was killed in 2009 for fighting to defend human rights and the environment in the small town of Chicomuselo, Chiapas, where Calgary-based mining company Blackfire operated with close communication and support from the Canadian Embassy in Mexico. No one has been held accountable in his […]
Join Steelworkers and labour activists at a free event in Toronto to hear from Ms. Machris Cabreros, a leading Philippine activist and progressive politician. Ms. Machris Cabreros, Philippine Leader of Akbayan (Citizen’s Action Party) Building Philippine Social Democracy in the Age of Trump, Authoritarianism and The War on Drugs Thurs. Feb. 15 7:00 p.m. Steelworkers […]
When internal disputes arise within one union, other unions do not normally pounce to take selfish advantage. Raiding — attempting to lure members from another union (rather than helping non-union workers join) — can be like a wildfire. It can spread, unpredictably. Raided unions try, sooner or later, to counter-raid or respond in other divisive […]
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