Mines safety review committee holds hearings in Sudbury The first day of the mines safety review committee in Sudbury held Wednesday wrapped up with a suggestion from the United Steelworkers that the hearings hadn’t been publicized well enough. The province is holding review sessions in mining communities across Ontario to look at the health and […]
Union members protest layoffs near gates of IOC The United Steelworkers Union (USW) is seeking arbitration on the case, and, in the meantime, Head said she’ll apply for jobs at places like Muskrat Falls until it’s sorted out. USW president Ron Thomas said it’s been long enough and it’s time for them to go back […]
BURNABY, B.C. – United Steelworkers union (USW) Director for Western Canada, Scott Lunny, is raising concerns about calls to amend or repeal the British Columbia government’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). Director Lunny released the following statement: “Resource sectors sustain working families across British Columbia. Those jobs depend on industry investment and […]
On the anniversary of the Babine Forest Products mill explosion, the United Steelworkers union (USW) is remembering the two workers killed and the more than 20 others injured in the 2012 tragedy, while welcoming long-overdue reforms to British Columbia’s combustible dust safety regulations. Fourteen years ago, two workers went to work at the Babine sawmill […]
There are things trade unionists can do to tackle gender-based violence.
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, […]
