Tag: USW

More and more workers want to join unions amid the high grocery prices, spiraling health care costs and other failures of today’s uncertain economy.

Marcelo Assis, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 12000 at Southern Connecticut Gas, fervently believes the nation needs to do a better job of reaching out to those who served and connecting them to the assistance they earned.

Unions anchor millions of Americans in the middle class, enabling these workers to leverage a stronger work-life balance than peers at nonunion workplaces.

Community leaders united behind the initiative. And then Donald Trump stabbed them all in the back.

Americans fervently support Medicaid, in part because so many depended on it at one time or know someone who survived because of it.

The USW must navigate factionalism while championing labor rights amid rising anti-union pressures and global trade fragmentation.