Description

Our members reflect the diversity of Canada. We celebrate differences and believe that everyone is entitled to a workplace that is free from discrimination, regardless of race, religion, gender, age, status or sexual orientation.

Our union helped achieve legislation and regulations that provide for equal pay, anti-harassment protection and employment equity provisions.

Contact the Committee

You can contact the Civil and Human Rights Committee at [email protected] or...

Although there remains significant ground to cover on differences that remain between our committee and ArcelorMittal management, we are nonetheless gratified to report that the unity and solidarity demonstrated by USW members over the past months at each and every location represented in these negotiations finally appears to have made a positive impression on the company.

ArcelorMittal has returned to Pittsburgh to resume bargaining with proposals that represent significant progress in some important areas, but the company still needs to make more movement on other issues – among the most vital to our members and our committee – to reach a fair contract settlement.

Again, our committee still has a lot of work to do on the issues that remain before we can present a tentative agreement for the membership to consider, but we urge everyone to remain patient while our bargaining continues.

Under no circumstances should anyone interpret this to mean that our fight is finished, that we have succeeded in our goals or that we are willing to continue this process indefinitely.

There should be no doubt now that management has heard the messages delivered by our membership loudly and clearly as we have stood together and spoken with one united voice throughout this long process.

Your ongoing vocal and visual support for our negotiating committee is as absolutely essential now as it has ever been for us to achieve our bargaining objectives.

Please maintain all of the internal organizing and community outreach efforts that are under way and stay in touch with members of your local CAT in the event that progress stalls and a labor dispute occurs.

As always, we urge everyone to stay focused on keeping yourselves and each other safe on the job while continuing to be the best and most productive steelmaking workforce in the world.

In the meantime, we will keep everyone informed as negotiations proceed.

Description

The Worker's Compensation and Health and Safety Committee works with units to reduce stress, defend members, advise on workers' compensation matters, negotiate for better health and safety conditions and lobby for better regulations and standards.

Health and Safety Creed

"The demands of the service or the importance of the job are never so great that we cannot do the job safely." If the job is NOT safe, in the opinion of the person doing the job, it should not be done by ANY person until it is safe.

Composition of the committee

Please submit your application online if you are interested in filling one of the vacant positions in the Committee.
 

Description

Local 1944 is politically engaged, because laws and politics have a big impact on our workplaces and our communities, and together we can be a force for positive change. 

Health and safety standards and the right to refuse unsafe work are now enshrined in law thanks to the joint efforts of Steelworkers and elected members of labour-friendly parties such as the New Democratic Party (NDP).

In English Canada, Steelworkers are active members of the NDP. In Quebec, the USW works with Québécois parties, candidates and elected members.

Message from the Committee

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The Political Action Committee wants to encourage more local political action and more communication regarding political issues within our Local. We are committed to establishing more effective two-way communications between our Committee, the Locals and the members.

Our goal is to activate Local 1944 members in community, municipal, provincial, federal and international issues based-campaigns. To achieve these goals, we need to have a political action coordinator in each Local.

The political action coordinator will act as a leader in the Local's political activity as well as a contact for the Political Action Committee. We hope that they will communicate local concerns and issues to the Committee and help in organizing actions.

Please have your political action coordinator complete the information form and return it to the Committee as soon as possible. Your coordinator may also use the questionnaire to create a list of Local members interested in being involved in political action.

In Solidarity,

Political Action Committee

Composition of the Committee

October 3, 2018 - October 4 is the National Day to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (hereafter MMIWG).

In Canada, Indigenous people are twice as likely to be victims of violent assault than non-Indigenous people, especially Indigenous women and girls.

National Inquiry 

In 2016, the Government of Canada launched a National Inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, independent from the federal government.

According to the Interim report of the National Inquiry, “violence against Indigenous people—including Indigenous women and girls—is rooted in colonization. For the violence against Indigenous women and girls to end, the ongoing colonial relationship that facilitates it must end.”

Everyone can play a role

As we await the release of the complete report of the National Inquiry into MMIWG, we need to take action. There are many ways by which every one of us can have a positive impact:

- Raise awareness: be informed, get involved, and mobilize
- Follow or help the CBC News investigation into the 34 unsolved cases of MMIGW
- On October 4, wear red clothes to show support to the families of MMIGW
- View ‘Walking with our Sisters’, an art installation touring Canada to honour the lives of the MMIWG (next dates in 2019)
- Take the pledge to end violence with Amnesty International
- Attend one of the ‘Sisters in Spirit’ vigils on October 4
- Write a letter to your MP to demand action
- Volunteer with a women’s shelter or Friendship Centre or make donations such as toiletries and seasonal clothing.

Read Ken Neumann’s statement and Marty Warren’s statement on the National day to Commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

In Solidarity,

USW Local 1944