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We are the United Steelworkers Local 417-G under the employ of Cherokee Nitrogen LLC, a division of LSB Industries. We are located on a 1600 acre site along the Tennessee River in Northwest Alabama and produce anhydrous ammonia, aqua ammonia, nitric acid, urea, urea ammonium nitrate, nitrate solutions and diesel emmissions fluid (DEF).
Rapid Response News
Rapid Response, our union’s nonpartisan grassroots activist program, provides an opportunity for every USW member to weigh in on legislation concerning labor and work-related issues. By joining together, we encourage government actions that will positively impact our families, contracts and communities. Learn more!
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USW National News
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The Torchbearer: September 2026
YOUR VOICE. YOUR UNION. YOUR VOTE. Election Day is Nov. 3, 2026. Your voice matters—at work, in your community, and at the ballot box. Make a plan to vote. Check your registration. Know your deadlines... —
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Rapid Response Action Call: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Fighting to Preserve Our Domestic Tire Industry
For generations, tire plants have provided good, family-supporting jobs, and helped build strong communities across our country. But those jobs, our members’ jobs, are disappearing at an alarming rate... —
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Rapid Response Info Alert: Power to the Polls! Show Up. Pitch In. Serve Your Communities.
Steelworkers know what it means to step up when our communities need us. This Election Day, you can put that same spirit of service to work by becoming a poll worker! What Does a Poll Worker Do? Poll... —
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1,400 Corning Workers in Michigan Join USW
Glen Dowdy understood the union difference long before he came to work at the Corning facility in Hemlock, Mich., a year ago. Dowdy worked in a USW-represented facility at his previous job, but he dec... —
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Rapid Response Feedback Report: Senate Farm Bill Stalled in Committee!
Click here to download this Feedback Report as a PDF. In the days leading up to the Senate Agriculture Committee’s vote on the Farm Bill 2.0, USW members across the country contacted their Senators an... —
