Burnaby, B.C. – The United Steelworkers is marking the fourth anniversary of the Lakeland Mills explosion in Prince George with a renewed call for a public inquiry into the tragedy that, along with the explosion at Babine Forest Products, killed four workers and injured dozens more. “When the attention of our entire province turned north […]
TORONTO, 22 April 2016 – On the three-year anniversary of the deadly Rana Plaza building collapse, the United Steelworkers (USW) and other Canadian trade unions call for continued action to improve working conditions in the Bangladesh garment sector and to ensure garment workers are treated fairly and can work safety. “The building repairs and corrective […]
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 […]
The USW is a union with global reach. Our union has members in Canada and the US, but we are also a founding partner of Workers Uniting, a transatlantic union we formed with Unite the Union, the largest union in the United Kingdom. Now, following upon the exciting merger of the Telecommunications Workers Union with […]
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