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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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USW National News

  • Rapid Response Action Call: Pennsylvania Legislation Threatens Steelworker Jobs!

    Click here to download this Action Call as a PDF. SB 1260, which is currently under consideration in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, is being presented as an electrical licensing bill aimed... —

  • SWOC Turns 90

    USW’s Founding Has its Roots in Organizing Drive that Began in 1936 It was 90 years ago – in the sweltering heat of one of the warmest and driest summers in American history – that organizers fanned o... —

  • Solidarity in Safety

    USW Activists Build Safer, Healthier Workplaces and Communities Norm Rogers and his fellow USW oil workers fought to enshrine strict safety standards for refineries in California law, finally winning... —

  • Miners Build Power for the Future at USW Mining Conference

    About 200 USW members from the U.S. and Canada honed their skills and pledged their ongoing solidarity last week at the 2026 Mining Conference focused on building power in a turbulent but rapidly expa... —

  • Union? Yes!

    Workers on Alaska’s North Slope Refuse to Be Left Out in the Cold Bryan Goode has worked on the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope for 35 years, braving some of the most extreme weather conditions and... —

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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