Education & Equality

Steelworkers help members gain skills, knowledge and confidence to protect their rights AND partcipate in our union. We offer courses in six main areas:

• Stewards
• Protecting Health, Safety and the Environment
• Developing Diverse Leadership
• Bargaining to Win
• Equality at Work
• Organizing and Mobilizing

Education & Equality | Resources »

Tools for Stewards and Activists

Forms, tips, checklists and other helpful materials from USW education courses.

Scholarships

The USW offers a number of scholarships for high school students, post-secondary students and Steelworker members. The 2016 scholarship deadline is June 30.

Member-facilitators are essential to USW’s education program. To support your on-going development as union educators, in this section you’ll find tools for good facilitation, thought-provoking videos and articles, and USW course materials.

Summer Internships - Steelworker Summer

PAID Internships are open to young adults, 17-25 years of age, who are children or grandchildren of members or retired members of the United Steelworkers and actively enrolled in school.

Family Education Day

USW Family Education Day is a new program that provides funding for locals to bring together USW members, their families and allies in the social justice movement for a day of education, culture and networking.