Health & Safety Issues & Campaigns
- Honouring Westray On May 9th, 2012 we honour the memory of the 26 miners who lost their lives in the Westray mine explosion twenty years ago.
- New Worker Awareness Program Many workplace injuries and illnesses happen because a worker is new to a job and unaware of the hazards. Most injuries happen to new workers in their first three months on the job. Help new and young workers by sharing your knowledge and experience.
- Fatalities
- Occupational Disease Occupational diseases are health disorders resulting from conditions related to the workplace, and are one of the most critical issues facing our members and retirees today.
- Injured Workers An overview of our Injured Workers and Workers Compensation Programs
- Request for Joint Health and Safety Committees to Participate in Ontario Ergonomic Research Study Joint Health and Safety Committees are invited to participate with employer counterparts in a confidential research project on Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs).
- Why Steelworkers need to be concerned about the growth of precarious work in Canada and around the world October 7 is International Day of Action on Precarious Work as designated by the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF).
- Steelworker Submission to Manitoba's Workers Compensation Review Committee Introduction The United Steelworkers of America welcomes this opportunity to present to the Workers Compensation Review Committee our concerns and recommendations regarding compensation for injured, ill, and disabled workers1 in Manitoba. The Committee has already heard from local union representatives of our union, and this submission builds on those comments and remarks. We also have reviewed and adopt the comments and recommendations made by the Manitoba Federation of Labour.
- The Growth of Jobs Without Rights and Security is Increasing in Canada Over the past two years, self-employment has expanded more than twice as fast as paid private-sector employment. Part-time work has expanded more than twice as fast as full-time work.
- View from the Track: Submission to the Rail Safety Act Review 2007
- Whatever happened to the Westray Bill? Why are we still dying for a living? In March 2004, to great acclaim and with the support of a unanimous House of Commons and Senate, the Governor General signed into law amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada, Bill C-45.
- Stop Your Workplace from Becoming a Crime Scene