Welcome to the new USW Local 897 website. Here you will find links to things like ADP, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Principal retirement and great USW apparel. We hope you find it useful. Please let us know what you think and what should be added as this is your website.
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The USW was established May 22, 1942, in Cleveland, Ohio, through the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, after almost six years of divisive struggles to create a new union of steelworkers. The founder and first president of the USW, Philip Murray, led the union through its first organizing drives and dangerous first decade, when the workers of USW went on strike several times to win the right to bargain collectively with steel companies. Through collective bargaining they secured higher wages and paid vacations.
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DON'T FORGET UNION MEETINGS HAVE A NEW LOCATION Click here for directions
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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!
Union Plus Benefits
Did you know your USW membership entitles you to discounts on wireless, car rentals, movie tickets, car insurance and more? Visit the Union Plus website to view current discounts and programs.
USW National News
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Rapid Response Info Alert: Balancing the Scales: Retirement Security
Click here to download this Info Alert as a PDF. Hard-earned retirement benefits are under attack nationwide, and working families are feeling it. These challenges are not accidental – they are the re... —
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Rapid Response Action Call: Our Fight to Protect Our Voice Isn’t Over!
Click here to download this Action Call as a PDF. Back in late October, we worked hard to stop Governor Mike Braun’s push for unprecedented mid-decade redistricting – and at the time, it looked like t... —
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Paper City: Northern Pa. Paper Mill Has Sustained Generations of Families
Long before workers banded together in 1942 to form the USW, Dan Cherry’s great-great grandfather lost his life due to unsafe working conditions at the Domtar paper mill in Johnsonburg, Pa. Cherry, a... —
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LEO W. GERARD: 1947-2025 – ‘The Work of a Lifetime’
USW Mourns Loss of Former International President Leo W. Gerard grew up in a company town in Sudbury, Ontario, a miner’s son who, as a boy, accompanied his father on union organizing drives. By the ti... —
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Peerless Quality – Illinois Members Take Pride in Producing Gas and Electric Stoves
Mike Keck has worked at the Peerless-Premier Appliance Co. in Belleville, Ill., for 46 years. For all but four of those years, he has also served as the president of Local 182B. Today, Keck has an eye... —
