We are the United Steelworkers, North America’s largest industrial union. We’re 1.2 million members and retirees strong in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. We proudly represent men and women who work in nearly every industry there is.
Open Enrollment for 2024 benefits Opens Monday, May 20th and ends Wednesday, May 31, 2024.
Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to choose or update the benefit options that best meet you and your family’s needs for the 2024- 2025 plan year. Your elections are effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, unless you have a qualifying event, like getting married or having a baby.
Even if you don’t plan to make changes, you should log in to the ATI Benefit Connection to:
· Review your 2024-2025 Benefit Guide clicking on "Understand Your 2024-2025 Coverage",
· Make sure your dependent and beneficiary information is up to date, correct and complete;
· Review your current elections.
If you would like to enroll in or change your medical and/or dental elections, please contact Aaron Watts 541 409 0898 or Sam Rodgers 541 223 6310.
If you do not take action during the annual enrollment period, your current benefits will continue automatically in 2024-2025.
1886: Printers in Duluth organize, followed within a few months by the Cigar Makers.
1886: The Knights of Labor, the Northern Alliance, The Grange and the trades assemblies hold a joint convention in St. Paul. The convention calls for creation of a Bureau of Labor Statistics, arbitration of disputes, no child labor in factories or mines and no convict labor contracts.
1886: The Haymarket Protest in Chicago marks the beginning of the decline of the Knights of Labor. On May 1, some 80,000 workers, many of them immigrants, march in a parade to demand an eight-hour day. At a rally May 4, someone throws a bomb into the crowd, killing a number of people. Eight organizers of the Haymarket gathering are put on trial, convicted without evidence and four are executed. Although the Haymarket Massacre, as it also is called, leads to the demise of the Knights of Labor, it also sparks an international movement for worker rights. Today, May 1 (May Day) is marked as International Workers Day in many countries.
1886: The American Federation of Labor, which would become the dominant labor federation, replacing the Knights of Labor, is established in Columbus, Ohio.
1887: The opening of a Pinkerton Detective Agency in St. Paul arouses strong protests from the St. Paul Trades & Labor Assembly. The governor and mayors of both Twin Cities declare themselves opposed to the use of Pinkerton men, who often are used to spy on workers and break strikes.
1887: The Minnesota Legislature prohibits some convict labor, although convict labor is not completely prohibited until 1913. The Legislature also establishes a rule that railroad companies are liable for injuries to their employees, the first move toward workers’ compensation laws.
1887: Thirteen tradesmen form The Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America in Baltimore, MD, and within a year, the union grows to more than 7,000 members in over 100 locals.
1888: Organizer Louis Nash calls a mass meeting of retail clerks in St. Paul. Three hundred people, half of them women, turn out to protest the 16-hour day and six-day week. They donate 25 cents each toward handbills, hall rent and the cost of an application for a union charter.
1888: Some 260 female employees walk out at the clothing factory of Shotwell, Clerihew & Lothman in Minneapolis. Dubbed “the striking maidens,” they are members of the Knights of Labor. The strike fails, but the company does not win, either. A community boycott leads to its eventual closure.
1888: Labor organizer and reformer Eva McDonald Valesh (a.k.a. Eva Gay) writes a series of articles for the St. Paul Daily Globe, revealing the intolerable and unsafe conditions endured by female factory...
