USW District 3 Director Stephen Hunt is interviewed in Ottawa by StraightGoods.ca about Bill C-300, a private members' bill aimed at making Canadian extraction companies  accountable in foreign operations. Click to view.
	DealwithSteel.ca is a website that supports the USW's BC Interior Wood Council locals in negotiations with BC Forest Industry employers. Union members, members of our communities and the media can keep up to date by visiting the site. Click to view.
	Steelworker Summer 2010 Student Intern Program Steelworker Summer is an educational and training internship in which participants develop skills useful for union growth by experiencing firsthand the kinds of struggles workers face while trying to win a voice at work and in the community. Click to view.

29 JULY 2010 - Steel This Week

ENDAKO MINERS NOW STEELWORKERS • CN, CP REPORT PROFITS • LET US STEEL CASE PROCEED, APPEAL COURT SAYS • STEELWORKERS WELCOME COURT RULING IN FAVOUR OF LOS MINEROS • EI CLAIMS UP IN MAY AFTER NINE-MONTH FALL... more

26 JULY 2010 - United Steelworkers and Western Forest Products Reach Tentative Agreement in BC Coastal Forest Industry

BURNABY, BC – The United Steelworkers (USW) and Western Forest Products (WFP) have reached a tentative agreement, covering some 2,400 USW Local 1-1937 and Local 1-85 members employed at WFP sawmilling and woodlands operations on Vancouver Island, the Mainland Coast and the Haida Gwaii. USW Wood Council chair Bob Matters says full details of the tentative agreement will be provided to members at a series of ratification meetings. Members in isolated areas may be provided written details and mail-in ballots. In general, terms the four-year agreement, expiring in June of 2014, enhance the members’ job security, improve Health and Welfare benefits, stabilize the Long Term Disability Plan, improve severance pay in the event of permanent or partial closures and rebuild preferential hiring protections.... more

22 JULY 2010 - Endako Mines Workers Join United Steelworkers

BURNABY, BC – Today a group of some 260 workers was granted United Steelworkers (USW) membership by the BC Labour Relations Board. The workers, employed at the Endako Mines open pit and milling operations in northern BC, are now members of USW Local 1-424, based in Prince George. USW Western Canada Director Stephen Hunt welcomes the workers into the union. “Our union looks forward to working with the new membership at Endako mines,” says Hunt. “We congratulate them for taking the step to unionize and we are confident that we can work together to negotiate a good, solid first agreement with this employer.”... more

20 JULY 2010 – Former IWA President Jack Munro Joins Call for Improved Canada Pension Plan

BURNABY, BC – Former IWA Canada President Jack Munro has publicly joined the Canadian Labour Congress’ national campaign for an improved Canada Pension Plan. Appearing in a video produced by the United Way of the Lower Mainland, following a recent presentation on pension income for seniors, the 80 year-old Munro says that it is encouraging that the House of Commons is talking about pension reform. Munro said that “there’s problems developing (with the CPP) that we didn’t image would develop…” and that government is now responding because people are putting pressure on it. Munro says the longer we wait for pension reform, the worse it will get. “Somebody has to pay for pension reform,” says Munro, who added the time is now – less there be “terrible hardship” put on increasing numbers of seniors.... more