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Chemical Sector Workers Unite Across Borders at USW Headquarters
About three dozen members of the Dow-DuPont North American Council spent three days at USW headquarters in Pittsburgh last week to share information and build solidarity across the union and around th... —
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Rapid Response Info Alert: Balancing the Scales: Collective Bargaining
Click here to download this Info Alert as a PDF. USW Locals should have begun receiving petition materials as part of an effort to defend the right to collective bargaining and demand that elected off... —
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More Than 8,600 Inland Empire Kaiser Permanente Workers Strike for Patient Care, Fair Wages
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tues., Oct. 14, 2025Contact: Chelsey Engel, cengel@usw.org, 412-212-8173 (Fontana, Calif.) – More than 8,600 Kaiser Permanente health care workers across the Inland Empire have... —
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USW Welcomes New Members in the Chemical Sector
The USW strengthened its presence in the chemical sector last week, welcoming more than two hundred new members at two companies—Dow in California and Kraton in Ohio. At Kraton’s Belpre, Ohio, facilit... —
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SOAR Remembrance of USW President Leo W. Gerard
Julie SteinSOAR Director It is with great sadness, but also great honor, to reflect upon the recent passing of my good friend and our union’s longest serving International President, Leo W. Gerard. Le... —