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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. 

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Local 2695
Mar 11
Monthly Meeting

4:00PM - 5:00PM

1301 Texas St.

Gary, IN 46402

Monthly Meeting

Local 2695 monthly union meeting. 

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USW National News

  • Union Power

    Members at Milbank Manufacturing in Missouri Produce Electrical Distribution Units Brad Dalton first walked through the door at Milbank Manufacturing Co. in Kansas City at the age of 20, expecting tha... —

  • McCall Steps Aside

    International President David McCall Leaves Behind Incomparable Legacy of Advocacy David McCall was 18 years old when he joined Local 6787 and went to work as a millwright at Bethlehem Steel’s sprawli... —

  • Neumann Becomes New SOAR President

    Ken Neumann, who served for 18 years as the USW’s national director for Canada before his retirement in 2022, became the fifth international president of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retire... —

  • USW Local 689 Leverages the Power of Community to Reindustrialize Former Ports Site

    USW Local 689 has had a longstanding inside joke that their zealous political activism, community involvement, and service would all converge on one critical goal: taking over the world.  Their m... —

  • USW Making Rail Operations Safer to Prevent Future Tragedies

    USW members launched an effort in 2024 to make in-plant and in-mill railroad operations safer and to prevent future tragedies with this small job classification. At least 89 Steelworkers have lost the... —

Safe Jobs

Do you or someone you care about have a story about violence in a health care setting? Let us know.

Kicked. Punched. Verbally Abused. Choked. Shoved.

These things should never be “all in a day’s work.”

For tens of thousands of USW members working in hospitals, nursing homes, emergency response, and similar workplaces, this is too often the reality. The rates of violence in health care workplaces is 12 times the rate of other sectors, and it is rising sharply. Health care workers suffer more workplace injuries than any other profession, with about 654,000 people harmed per year on the job.

This violence poses a wide threat to nurses, physicians, healthcare staff, patients, and visitors. It also drives up costs and undermines both the quality of care and patient outcomes. Ultimately, it impacts us all.

Here’s the good news: There are proven strategies to reduce violence, like appropriate staffing, trained security staff, and other protocols. This week, the U.S. House held a hearing on The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1309), a bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02) that would instruct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue much-needed standards.

There’s a saying that OSHA rules are written in blood. For too long, health care workers have paid the price of inaction. Please watch for ways you can get involved in the coming weeks.

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