News@6 Winter 2019
In this issue:
- Dig Deep, Stand Strong - Marty's Message
- Tom Conway Becomes 8th USW International President
- Organizing New Members Across District 6
- USW Builds Community Fund for Wabush Retirees
- Bargaining Successes
- Federal Election - Steelworkers Vote!
- Fighting Ford
- District 6 News From the Locals
- Celebrating Extraordinary Legacies - Retirement of Leo W. Gerard and Carol Landry
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Recent News Articles
Wishing you a happy end of 2019 and thank you
Steelworkers, thank you for your efforts in building our union this year.
USW Cares: 2019 Jefferson Award Winners Announced
Since 2015, the USW has partnered with the Jefferson Awards Foundation, recently renamed Multiplying Good, to celebrate Steelworkers who do amazing works of community service, and to show the world that Steelworkers have big hearts.
Winnipeg General Strike Musical Heads to Major Theatres
Stand! a musical about the Winnipeg General Strike premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival this past fall, and has now returned for a wider release starting November 29 in select Canadian cities.
SOAR International Executive Board Goes to Washington!
Four Canadian SOAR Board members joined with SOAR delegates to the Rapid Response conference in Washington, DC to lobby US House Representatives and Senators
Canadian Labour Legend Leo Gerard on the Past, Present and Future of Unions
USW International President emeritus Leo W. Gerard spoke with the CBC's Michael Enright about his life in the labour movement and the future of unions in an age of globalized trade, a collapsing manufacturing sector and precarious employment.