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USW National News
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Oil Workers Reach New Deal
Four-Year Contract Raises Wages, Standards Across Industry USW leaders in the oil industry reached agreement in February on a new contract that will cover more than 30,000 workers in the oil and petro... —
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Co-Op Federation Workers Join the USW
Staff members of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) became the newest members of USW Local 9007 this spring when they voted to ratify their first contract. Fo... —
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Solidarity, Forever
Workers Transform Maine Union Hall into Center of Labor Community In 1987, Linda Deane was a paper worker on strike alongside 1,200 union siblings at International Paper’s flagship mill in Jay, Maine... —
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Building Workplace Democracy
Co-Ops Create Worker-Driven Ownership and Leadership Structure Mat Forth and his co-workers at the Keystone Development Center, a technical assistance provider for co-ops, had a goal – to create a dem... —
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Building Power with Our Ballot: Seeking Historic Change in Arizona
This is part 5 of the Building Power with Our Ballot series from the USW’s Political newsletter Election Connection. Arizona’s labor movement sees an opportunity for historic change in the state legis... —