TIMMINS, Ont. – Last week, 30 frontline workers at the Wakenagun Youth Healing Lodge voted to join the United Steelworkers union (USW), significantly strengthening worker power in Northern Ontario and in Indigenous-led community care. The lodge in Timmins, Ont., provides residential and cultural healing programs for Indigenous youth. Workers deliver vital support, care and programming […]
VANCOUVER – Mine workers from Mexico, joined by United Steelworkers (USW) union members, will demonstrate Tuesday outside the Vancouver offices of Orla Mining to protest violence and intimidation against workers at Orla’s Camino Rojo mine in Mexico. WHO: Members of the Mexican miners’ union Los Mineros and the United Steelworkers union WHAT: Protest outside […]
Long Harbour, N.L. – Nearly a year after casting their ballots, 12 warehouse workers employed by Hays at the Vale Long Harbour processing plant have officially joined the United Steelworkers union (USW). On Friday, the Newfoundland and Labrador Labour Relations Board opened the sealed ballot box and confirmed the workers’ voted to unionize with the […]
CRANBROOK, B.C. – Frustrated by the violation of their collective agreement rights and being deprived of severance payments, United Steelworkers union (USW) members at Galloway Sawmill are going public. The workers, members of USW Local 1-405, are demanding severance payments from Peak Renewables and Galloway Sawmill owner Brian Fehr. “Workers left at the Galloway Sawmill […]
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