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.
We would like to inform you that the union has been notified by the hospital that they have done a market analysis and will be implementing a market adjustment. The union supports the hospital in making this decision. We were pleased to hear this news as we have been consistently telling the hospital administration throughout the past few years that a market adjustment needed to be done. This will not affect contract negotiations. We will still be proposing general wage increases in the upcoming negotiations.
Many process plants contain high speed rotating equipment – for example, compressors, centrifuges, and centrifugal extractors. Process safety management systems must include systems to identify these hazards, and ensure proper design, fabrication, inspection, and maintenance of high energy equipment. Some examples of hazardous energy that you might have in your plant include: Kinetic energy from high speed rotating equipment such as pumps, compressors, fans, centrifuges, or centrifugal extractors; electrical energy; high pressure, such as compressed air and other gases, or high pressure steam’ etc.
What Can You Do?
With your co-workers, make a list of all of the hazardous energy sources in your plant. Be sure that you all understand the operating, inspection, and preventive maintenance systems in place to manage the risk associated with those hazards.
Understand your role in ensuring that the hazardous energy safeguards in your plant are robust and functioning properly.
Many high speed machines have vibration sensors with alarms or shutdown interlocks. Make sure these are not bypassed without following your plant Temporary Management of Change procedures.
If you are responsible for inspecting or maintaining hazardous energy equipment, follow all of the specified procedures diligently, and report any concerns that you have to your management and technical staff.
Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties on Coated and Uncoated Paper Imports – An Update on our Continuing Work on Trade in the Paper Sector – For the past several years, the USW has fought for fair trade practices that even the playing field against countries that cheat the system and artificially price goods. While we have testified and won trade cases that imposed duties and had an immediate impact on the industry, It is easy to forget that fighting for these policies is on ongoing battle that we are continuously engaged in. Here is an update on some of the recent cases:
Certain Coated Paper through August 2018: The original decision to impose duties was made by the International Trade Commission in November 2010. That decision was based on petitions filed by the USW and NewPage Corporation (since then acquired by Verso), Sappi North America, Appleton Coated LLC in September 2009 with the Department of Commerce and the ITC. The petitions alleged that certain coated paper from China and Indonesia had been subsidized and dumped in the United States, resulting in injury to the domestic industry and its employees. In the ITC decided to continue existing duties for another 5 years. Today, the AD and CVD orders continue to discipline imports from China and Indonesia.
Certain Uncoated Paper through August 2018:In January of 2015, the USW, along with Domtar, Finch Paper, P.H. Glatfelter, and PCA, filed countervailing duty petitions on uncoated paper imports from China and Indonesia and antidumping petitions on imports from China, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, and Portugal. 3 ½ years later, overall volume of imports is down 3.4% in the first 8 months of 2018 vs. 2017 and down 46.7% from 2014-2017.
Uncoated Paper from Indonesia Countervailing Duties Administrative Review Final Results – One entity responded to the administrative review of countervailing duties applied to uncoated paper from Indonesia – the Company, PT Anugrah Kertas Utama, PT RIAU Andalan Kertas, APRIL Fine Paper Macao Commercial Offshore Limited, and their cross-owned affiliates (collectively “APRIL”). Their CVD rate is expected to decrease due to wood sourcing issues that affected the prices that the rates were initially based on, but trade lawyers are working to make sure that the updated subsidy rate has been calculated correctly. We will also have an opportunity to request another administrative review of the CVD orders for the 2018 period in March 2019. Trade...
United Steelworkers Local 9460 is a member-run, member-powered union built on having a voice both on the job, as well as in our union. Decisions are made by members, and member participation has been the key to our successes. Members decide collectively what our focus should be in contract negotiations, what we spend our dues money on, what position our union is going to take on the important issues of the day, and what organizations in our communities we are going to work with and support.
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United Steelworkers Local 9460 is a member-run, member-powered union. We formed our union so that collectively we would have a voice at work. All of our decisions are made by the membership. Members decide collectively what our focus should be in contract negotiations, what we spend our dues money on, what position our union is going to take on the important issues of the day, and what organizations in our communities we are going to work with and support.
Only members can vote on whether or not we should go on strike, on electing our Union’s leadership – like President and Executive Board, or on accepting or rejecting contracts. To have a voice in our union and be part of the decision making process you simply need to be a member of United Steelworkers Local 9460.
Only members can vote on whether or not we should go on strike, on electing our Union’s leadership – like President and Executive Board, or on accepting or rejecting contracts. To have a voice in our union and be part of the decision making process you simply need to be a member of United Steelworkers Local 9460.
Our members direct the activities of our union through our membership meetings, by running for local union office, or by serving as a steward, Communication & Action Team member, or a member of one of our committees. Our union is yours, and it is what you make it!
From December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. "With Babies and Banners" tells the story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives of men involved in the sit-down strike, which not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women four decades later.
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From December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. "With Babies and Banners" tells the story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives of men involved in the sit-down strike. They not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women four decades later.
