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14 May 2012
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Media release
New Cuts to Airport Security Screeners Will Compromise Passenger Safety, Wait Times
The elimination of hundreds of security screeners at airports throughout Quebec and Atlantic Canada will compromise passenger safety and increase wait times for travellers.
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14 May 2012
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Media Release
WTO Called Upon to Dismiss Japan, EU Challenge to Canadian Renewable Energy Policy
Blue Green Canada, with other Canadian NGOs and labour unions, have sent an amicus curiae submission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) responding to Japan’s and the European Union’s joint attack on the Ontario Green Energy Act.
- 9 May 2012 | Media release United Steelworkers Welcome Announcement of New Smelter in Sudbury “Thousands of jobs will be created during development of the Sudbury smelter, the chromite mine and concentrating plant in northwestern Ontario and all the related infrastructure.” - Leo W. Gerard, USW International President
District 3 News »
- 15 May 2012 Update on Sawdust in BC Mills Yesterday WorkSafe communicated they had discovered a similarity with respect to the Burns Lake and Prince George Sawmill catastrophes.
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10 May 2012
Steel This Week
Quebec Steelworkers Walk 200 KM To Protest Lockout; Latest Deadly Chinese Mine Flood Kills 7, Traps 11; MEPS Forescasts US Steel Shipments Rising By 6% in 2012; Mulcair Touches Off 'Hysterical' Reaction Among Rightwing Politicians
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8 May 2012
Statement on Mill Safety from Stephen Hunt and Bob Matters
Following the tragic explosion at the Lakeland Mill in Prince George, the USW sent letters to the Minister of Labour, RCMP and Worksafe demanding information as to what is causing deaths, injuries and loss of job.
District 6 News »
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14 May 2012
Save Ontario Northland
The USW is a member of a Northern Communities Working Group that has launched a campaign to impress upon the government the importance of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission divestiture decision.
- 10 May 2012 | Media release Steelworkers Negotiate New Contract, End Strike at Haley Industries About 400 workers at Haley Industries Ltd. begin returning to work today after negotiating a new collective agreement and resolving a five-week strike.
- 9 May 2012 | CBC News Ex-Westray Miner Calls for Law Crackdown to Protect Workers A former Westray Mine worker gave an emotional account on Parliament Hill of how he tried to rescue fellow miners following a deadly explosion at the Plymouth, N.S., site 20 years ago, and urged for more to be done to protect employees.
District 5 News »
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31 March 2012
Massive Demonstration in Support of Rio Tinto’s Locked-Out Workers
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean today to demand an end to the lock out and to fight for the preservation of jobs at the Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) smelter.
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14 March 2012
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Media Release
Rio Tinto Under Surveillance, Called Back to Table to Negotiate in Good Faith!
Workers gather to hear about immense wave of solidarity from fellow union members, many of them Rio Tinto employees, in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
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14 March 2012
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Media Release
Worldwide Campaign Spills onto New Website Against Canadian Lock Out
"The website gives us a way to share developments of our fight with our supporters around the world," said Marc Maltais, President of USW Local 9490.