United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union

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The United Steelworkers is everybody’s union. Our members work in nearly every industry and in every job imaginable, in all regions of the country. Working people choose the Steelworkers because they know the importance of strong, democratic representation on the job. Choosing the Steelworkers means joining 280,000 other members in the most diverse private sector union in Canada. ... more

The United Steelworkers in Canada: A Story of Struggle, Growth, and Evolution

The United Steelworkers at the beginning of the 21st century barely resembles the mostly-male industrial union of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. But the increasing diversity of the membership has only strengthened the basic principles on which the union was founded. ... more

USW Equality Agenda

In Canada, one in five children lives in poverty. Women earn 60 cents for every dollar earned by men, and over 50 per cent of older women live in poverty. Visible minority persons earn 30 per cent less than white people. People of colour are 2.3 times more likely to live in poverty than whites. People with disabilities experience staggering levels of underemployment and unemployment. Globally, the picture is no better. Over one half of the world’s population lives on two dollars a day or less. More than one billion people are living on less than one dollar a day. The world’s 225 billionaires together own $1 trillion. Their wealth is equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 per cent of the world’s population: 225 individuals have the wealth of 3 billion poor people.... more

A Guide to the United Steelworkers

Members of the United Steelworkers work in every sector of Canada’s economy in every kind of job. We work in call centres and credit unions, mines and manufacturing plants, offices and oil refineries, restaurants and rubber plants, sawmills and steel mills and security companies. We work in nursing homes, legal clinics, social agencies and universities. Steelworkers make glass and paper and plastics. We process forest products and quarry stone. We make furniture and freight cars. We maintain railways and drive trucks. Steelworkers are women and men of every ethnic background and we speak many languages. We work in every region of Canada. The United Steelworkers is one big snapshot of the entire working population of Canada. The union is proud of its great diversity.... more