
With a union, you'll have a voice to create a better workplace for you and your coworkers.
We are the United Steelworkers, North America’s largest industrial union.
We proudly represent 1.2 million members and retirees in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, who work in nearly every industry there is.
We slurry and smelt aluminum. We mine for iron ore and create cement. We make glass and metals of many kinds. We produce paper and paper products. And we craft energy-saving wind turbines that help save our Earth.
We’re nurses and nurses’ aides. We make Harley Davidson motorcycles and Carrier air conditioners. We’re rubber workers who make your tires; metal workers who make the materials that go into buildings, homes, automobiles, planes and roads.
We serve you at banks and teach at universities. You’ll find us in oil refineries and grocery stores. At utility companies and in chemical plants. We work in the public sector and in the forests. We drive taxi cabs and work in airports. We’re security guards and electricians. We’re miners and pharmaceutical workers. We work in all these places and so many more.
We are leaders in our communities, in our work places, in our governments and more. We have a presence in the United Kingdom, Ireland, England, Scotland, Mexico and many other places around the world.
We believe in better. We stand up and fight back for better. We work for working families around the world.
New York City Steelworker talks about the benefits of a union
USW National News
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Sojourn 250 Flag at USW Headquarters
A historic U.S. flag made a stop at USW headquarters on July 1 as part of the National Flag Foundation’s “Flag Sojourn 250.” Before its arrival in Pittsburgh, the flag was on... —
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USW History Part of Flag Display
A piece of USW history will be on display at a Seattle museum this year as part of an exhibit honoring the history of the American flag. Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry is marking... —
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Oil Workers Reach New Deal
Four-Year Contract Raises Wages, Standards Across Industry USW leaders in the oil industry reached agreement in February on a new contract that will cover more than 30,000 workers in the oil and petro... —
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Co-Op Federation Workers Join the USW
Staff members of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) became the newest members of USW Local 9007 this spring when they voted to ratify their first contract. Fo... —
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Solidarity, Forever
Workers Transform Maine Union Hall into Center of Labor Community In 1987, Linda Deane was a paper worker on strike alongside 1,200 union siblings at International Paper’s flagship mill in Jay, Maine... —