USW@Work
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December 2012
USW@Work - December 2012
In this issue: The many ways to say union advantage • Steelworkers legal team challenges employer abuses • Quebec's Alexandre Boulerice • Humanity Fund helps international miners • BlueGreen in Premiers' Faces • Need for New Plan Nord • Unions Add to Our Economy • IndustriALL • B.C. Sawmill Explosions • They Organized and Won • Start a Family Education Day • Ending Violence Against Women
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May 2012
USW@Work – May 2012
In this issue: Kick Rio Tinto 'Off The Podium" • 70-year USW legacy * Thomas Mulcair, PM in waiting • Honouring Westray 20 years later • Seeking justice against Vale • Stop exporting logs and jobs • Youth fighting for their future • and more...
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June 2011
USW@Work - April 2011 Special Election Issue
Steelworkers Vote - Get Political, Get Involved. Meet USW Activists. Report Card: Grading Parties On Issues That Matter. Questions To Ask Your Candidate. Airport Screeners Campaign U.S. Steel Fight. B.C. Coal Miners Join USW
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December 2010
USW@Work - December 2010
In this Issue: Anti-Scab Campaigns - Int'l Women's Conference - Quebec Mining, Past and Present - Pensions Fight - Mining Act in Parliament - Aiding Guatemala Labour - Potash - Our Hispanic Community - Kill a Worker, Go to Jail - Behind the Chilean Rescue
- June 2010 Retirement Security For Everyone - a goal not a slogan
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June 2010
USW@Work - June 2010
Building for Tomorrow's Jobs - Building for Tomorrow's Green Jobs - Organizing Ramp-Up - Spirit In Motion - Hands Off Health Care! - Corporate Agenda Debunked
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November 2009 USW@Work – November 2009 In this issue: Blue-Green Canada • Lobbying Ottawa • Mission to Mexico • Alberta Health Care • Quebec Mill Campaign • Unity and Strength at Vale Inco
- March 2009 ACTRA Toronto Elects Heather Allin President TORONTO - The new president of the Toronto branch of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is as committed to strengthening the strategic alliance with the USW as was her predecessor.
- March 2009 Legal Matters: The Tricky Road to Second Contracts Getting a second collective agreement can often be just as difficult as getting certified or getting a first collective agreement. This is because the period leading up to a second collective agreement is often the first chance for an anti-union employer to try and decertify the union.
- March 2009 Leo Gerard: Don’t Remain Silent In an end-of-the-year speech to Canadian National Office staff, International President Leo Gerard said the US election of Barack Obama as the 44 th president of the United States could be “our time, our moment”, in the face of a crisis caused by those in positions of power in an unregulated economy.
- March 2009 M’Girl, All Girl, All Aboriginal, All Good As a final treat on the last day of the Nov. 2008 National Women’s Conference, delegates got a 20-minute performance from M’Girl, a trio of women from Metis/Cree, Ojibway and Mohawk backgrounds, whose drumbeats and harmonies incorporate blues, roots and world beat with traditional Aboriginal melodic phrasing, songforms and rhythms.
- March 2009 SOAR Calls For National Pension Insurance Fund The Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) is calling for a national pension insurance fund to protect retirement savings from the effects of the recession.
- March 2009 Steelworkers on Both Sides of the Border Celebrate Movement on ‘Buy America’ Legislation National Director Ken Neumann says Steelworkers on both sides of the border have supported “Buy America” provisions that will serve the interests of Canadian and American USW members.
- March 2009 Alternative To The Crisis - Stimulation Not Tax Cuts At the time of this writing, the global economic crisis was getting worse every day, hitting Canada and other countries with escalating layoffs and shutdowns.
- March 2009 Calling All Former Baie Verte Asbestos Miners and Families The asbestos mine in Baie Verte has been closed for nearly 20 years. But the exposures that shortened workers’ lives through industrial disease live on among the sick and the widowed from this Newfoundland outpost, where thousands of workers toiled to extract the mineral between 1955 and 1992.
- March 2009 Carol Landry - First Woman Appointed to the International Executive Board as Vice-President at Large. A TRUE STEELWORKER AND A TRUE NEWFOUNDLANDER When Carol Brown was growing up in Avondale, a small town on the Avalon Peninsula, in the southern part of Newfoundland’s Conception Bay, she longed to leave and see another world that she knew existed beyond the poverty and hardship of an island that had only been part of Canada for less than a year before she was born.
- March 2009 Enviro Notes: More than the Economy is Toxic A coalition including the USW launched a campaign in December for legislation to address the ‘5 Rs’ – Reduce, Replace, Restrict, Report and Reveal. While initially focused on Ontario, here are the details:
- March 2009 Is there Anything Wrong with Asking Governments to Buy the Things their Citizens Make? Ultra-conservative rhetoric has heated up recently over the US decision to ‘Buy America’ in the projects it is funding through its $825-billion stimulus package.
- March 2009 Quebec Steelworkers 44th Annual Meeting TROIS-RIVIERES, QC, - USW Quebec Director Daniel Roy told 500 delegates at the District’s 44th annual conference that health care, privatization, implementation of private-public partnerships and less protection of the French language are just a few examples of the issues facing Quebec workers.
- March 2009 Reforming EI Critical to Workers’ Ability to Get Through Recession District 6 Director Wayne Fraser says expanding Employment Insurance is critical to weathering the recession, especially in Ontario, where permanent plant closures and loss of manufacturing jobs have become epidemic, resulting in the province now being labeled as a ‘have not’ province.
- March 2009 René Lévesque Film Donated to Cinémathèque Québécoise The District 5 Conference also provided an opportunity to donate a film featuring an address by René Lévesque to a union school in 1965, when he was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party and the Minister of Natural Resources.
- March 2009 Abandoned Forest Industry a Major BC Election Issue VANCOUVER - The permanent loss of some 55 wood milling plants and more than 25,000 jobs under the BC Liberals since 2001 will be a major issue for the May 12 provincial election.
- March 2009 Legislative Update: Workers First The Workers First Campaign was initiated a few years ago by the USW to lobby the federal government for substantive changes to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency laws to better protect workers’ entitlements where companies are insolvent.