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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A digital application developed by the United Steelworkers' Tony Mazzocchi Center was one of four winning entries in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Worker Safety and Health App Challenge. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) The DOL sought entries from companies, educators, labor unions, and individuals across the country for software designed to educate the public about improving health and safety...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- USW President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement after today's remarks by President Obama for action, not politics as usual: "President Obama declared today let's get to work on jobs and growth for the middle class. The United Steelworkers agrees and we stand ready to help. The President's election victory on Tuesday said voters want our leaders to pull together around the shared belief that working families need job and...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) today said Clear Channel Communications made the right decision in removing anonymous billboards designed to intimidate voters and suppress turnout. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) The billboards, which warned of prison terms and fines for anyone engaged in voter fraud, began to appear in early October. The signs were financed by a "family foundation" that insisted on...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that workers ratified an agreement this week to integrate about 1,400 workers at 18 former Temple-Inland box plants into the union's master economic agreement with International Paper (IP), with 90% of the ballots cast in favor of the contract. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) Overall, the union represents about 4,000 workers at 61 IP box plants, along with...

FREEPORT, Ill., Oct. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Steelworkers (USW) International Vice President Fred Redmond, District 7 Director Jim Robinson, Local 745L President Dale Sandell and rank-and-file members from around the region on Friday will gather in Freeport, Illinois, to show solidarity with Sensata Technologies workers whose jobs are moving to China because of Mitt Romney's Bain Capital. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) The...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that workers represented by 14 local unions at ArcelorMittal USA facilities have ratified a three-year contract. A tellers committee of local union delegates counted ballots today at the union's international headquarters, with 94% cast in favor of the new agreement. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) USW International President Leo W. Gerard attributed the...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) today welcomed the decision of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to side with the United States in a major trade dispute covering China's imposition of illegal antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of grain oriented flat-rolled electrical steel from the United States. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) China had illegally imposed duties on these products...

Bain, Romney Sell Out American Workers to China for Profits PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) today released a new video that exposes the truth about how Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are profiting by selling out American workers by shipping U.S. jobs to China. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) In the video, posted on the union's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/steelworkers, workers in Freeport, Ill.,...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract with U.S. Steel covering more than 16,000 workers at its U.S. facilities. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) The union and the steelmaker reached a tentative agreement shortly before the previous contract expired on Sept. 1, and voting was conducted by mail ballot over the past three weeks. Members ratified the contract by...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) released the following statement today in conjunction with the upcoming expiration of relief under Section 421 of U.S. trade laws from surging imports of Chinese passenger and light truck tires. In April 2009, the USW filed a petition under Section 421 of U.S. trade law calling for a response to a flood of passenger and light truck tire imports from China. (Logo:...