The USW welcomes the modest tax increase for Ontario's richest and income increase for Ontario's poorest achieved by New Democrats in budget negotiations with the provincial government.
News media from around the world are reporting on an international campaign that calls on the International Olympic Committee to drop Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 Olympics.
By publicly dismissing an inquiry into mine safety, Ontario Labour Minister Lynda Jeffrey has trivialized scores of deaths and thousands of injuries suffered by miners over the last 30 years.
Two years after filing a complaint with the RCMP for corruption allegations against Calgary-based Blackfire Resources, a group of civil society organizations want to know where authorities stand.
Policy-wise, we desperately need a conversation about the pace and scale of the tarsands industry, not just on environmental grounds, but on economic grounds as well.
USW members at Infinity Rubber in Toronto's Etobicoke neighbourhood have been walking the picket line for over two years, fighting their employer's demands for drastic wage and benefit cuts.
USW and unions around the world are drawing a line in the sand against Rio Tinto after the company locked out 780 USW Local 9490 members 24 hours prior to its legal authority to do so.
CAW and USW members are tangibly connected at the forefront of the battle against corporate greed and the betrayal of Canadian working families by right-wing government in our country.
Proclaimed by the United Nations in 2000, December 18th is annually commemorated as International Migrants Day to raise awareness that the human and labour rights of migrant workers must be respected