Our Union
We are the United Steelworkers, North America’s largest industrial union. We’re 850,000 members and retirees strong in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, proudly representing workers across a wide variety of industries including atomic, chemical, energy, glass, health care, higher education, mining and metals, oil, paper, rubber and more.
Sign up for our email list:
USW National News
-
It’s Better in a Union
USW Hosts AFL-CIO Bus Tour Promoting Unions, Fighting Trump USW members helped the AFL-CIO kick off a pro-union bus tour in July with rallies in Pittsburgh and Newport News, Va., denouncing the Trump... —
-
Job-Killing Cuts – Trump Administration Claws Back Funding, Stunting Growth
USW members at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, celebrated last year when President Joe Biden’s administration awarded the company up to $45.1 million from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to... —
-
‘Women of Steel Make Us Stronger’
20 Years Have Passed Since Members Approved WOS Constitutional Amendment Bonnie Carey has been a Woman of Steel since 1978, when she went to work at the massive aluminum mill in Davenport, Iowa. In a... —
-
Safety Agencies in Danger
Scheme to Gut Federal Watchdogs Puts Workers at Risk When an explosion at the BP-Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio, took the lives of Max and Ben Morrissey – siblings by blood and USW membership – in Sep... —
-
‘We Created a Family’ – After Historic Wins, Blue Bird Workers Look to Future
Three years ago, Ciera McClinton and many of her co-workers at Blue Bird Corp. were struggling at times to make ends meet and facing issues of favoritism, forced overtime and other unfair conditions o... —