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We represent many workers in dangerous occupations, including steel-making, forestry, mining and smelting. Our health and safety staff work with local unions to reduce stress, defend members, advise on workers' compensation matters, negotiate for better health and safety conditions and lobby for better regulations and standards.
Steelworkers pride ourselves on being the health and safety union. Women of Steel are pointing to hazards and health issues they face as women workers. Let’s make women’s health and safety issues a priority for action!
Ronnie McEwan's tribute song to the 26 miners who perished May 9th, 1992 in the Westray Mine disaster.
An in-depth publication on the USW's fight to prevent workplace deaths and injuries from the 1992 Westray mine disaster through 2016.
Every year on April 28th, the National Day of Mourning, your local unions in regions across Canada honour and remember all workers who have been killed or critically injured while on the job, including workers who have died from an occupational disease.
More than 1,000 workers each year are killed at work, but police and prosecutors are not utilizing the Westray amendments that hold corporations, their directors and executives criminally accountable for the health and safety of workers.
The union's Emergency Response Team (ERT) relies on notification from our local unions as quickly as possible following a fatality or catastrophic incident.
The United Steelworkers is the health and safety union. Many workplace injuries and illnesses happen because a worker is new to a job and unaware of the hazards.
Contact information of the Provincial and National Ministers of Labour and Environment
The Steelworker David Ellis Scholarship is a health and safety scholarship award available to sons, daughters or grandchildren of any Steelworker member.
This letter by District 6 Director Myles Sullivan was published in the Hamilton Spectator on June 16, 2022
After years of being underpaid, undervalued and disrespected, airport security screening officers across Canada demand better from the federal government.
A letter to Ontario Minister of Labour Monte McNaughton from USW District 6 Director Myles Sullivan.
A letter to Ontario Minister of Labour Monte McNaughton from USW District 6 Director Myles Sullivan.
In the early morning hours of May 9, 1992, an explosion ripped through the Westray coal mine in Plymouth, N.S. The explosion took the lives of 26 miners and forever changed the lives of the people of Plymouth and many surrounding communities.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the deadly explosions at the Babine Forest Products sawmill near Burns Lake, and at Lakeland Mills in Prince George.
A decade-long campaign led by the daughter of a deceased uranium miner has led to victory for workers struck by Parkinson’s disease after being subjected to aluminum dust inhalation “treatments” in their jobs.
Most workplaces and safety equipment have been designed to suit male workers. When we take women into account, we make workplaces safer.
Department Head, Health, Safety and Environment
Gerry LeBlanc
(416) 544-5993