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USW National News
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Rapid Response Info Alert: Indiana Redistricting Session Threatens Fair Elections
Click here to download this Info Alert as a PDF. Indiana faces a critical moment as Governor Mike Braun considers calling a special legislative session to consider redrawing voting districts before th... —
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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... —
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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... —
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‘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... —
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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... —
