Massachusetts Public Sector Members Participate In The National Call-In Day

Union Announces 2007 Payment Increase for ArcelorMittal VEBA Participants

Massachusetts Public Sector members get ready to participate in the National Call-In Day of action for Social Security Fairness. Steelworker Local MWRA 9360 members are getting set up to start placing calls to Senator Kerry (D-MA) to ask the Senator to support Social Security Fairness Act (S 206). The calls are to ask to him to restore fairness to public ...more

Union Announces 2007 Payment Increase for ArcelorMittal VEBA Participants Benefit Trust to Reimburse Retirees, Spouses for Medicare Premiums For Immediate Release November 29, 2007 PITTSBURGH - The United Steelworkers (USW) today announced that some 53,000 retirees and surviving spouses who lost health care coverage in the bankruptcies of four steel ...more

USW Applauds Commerce Dept. Duties on Glossy Paper Imports Anti-subsidy, Dumping Tariffs Placed on China, Indonesia, S.Korea Producers

USW Members from Local 15024 Benefits from Mega Construction Project

For the first time ever, the U.S. is applying tariffs to counteract government subsidies benefiting goods imported from China in the form of countervailing duties. Up until this decision, China has enjoyed special treatment as a non-market economy that exempted it from anti-subsidy tariffs. Both Indonesia and South Korea are considered market economies....more

A $142 million George Harms Construction causeway project will employ 85 members of Local 15024 on the project. GHC employs a total of 165 workers. The Route 52 construction project will last for four years. GHC began work on the first of the projects three phases in August 2006 and expects initial completion sometime in 2009. The final project is expected ...more