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Budget 2025 makes progress – but workers need stronger action

November 5, 2025 | Media Releases

TORONTO – United Steelworkers union (USW) National Director Marty Warren issued the following statement on the federal Budget 2025: “This budget recognizes something workers have been saying for years. Canada needs to build more at home and expand its industrial capacity. The commitments on Buy-Canadian procurement, industrial strategy and trade enforcement are important steps forward […]

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Steelworkers union calls for Budget 2025 to defend Canadian jobs and economic sovereignty 

November 4, 2025 | Media Releases

TORONTO – As the federal government prepares to release Budget 2025, representatives of the United Steelworkers union (USW) will be available to speak about what they want to see from this budget in the face of escalating U.S. tariffs, layoffs and uncertainty across Canada’s industrial economy.  The USW will be looking for key measures to:  […]

B.C.’s forestry minister Ravi Parmar, Scott Lunny (USW Western Canada Director), Gavin McGarrigle (Unifor Western Regional Director), Geoff Dawe (PPWC President) join Premier David Eby at the B.C. Forestry Summit in Vancouver.

Steelworkers: Forestry workers need action now

November 3, 2025 | Media Releases

The United Steelworkers union (USW) is hopeful that today’s forestry summit between federal and provincial governments will serve as a crucial step towards the co-ordinated action needed to address British Columbia’s forestry emergency. The USW sees government recognition of the scale and immediacy of the crisis as a positive shift but warns that only swift, […]

Rogers Abbotsford Picket line with banner that reads On Strike at Rogers.

Rogers Abbotsford technicians ratify new agreement ending strike

October 30, 2025 | Media Releases

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – After more than four and a half months on the picket line, Rogers technicians in Abbotsford, B.C., have voted to ratify a new five-year collective agreement featuring monetary and language gains. The new agreement marks a major step forward in closing the long-standing pay gap between Abbotsford technicians and their counterparts elsewhere […]

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