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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.

USW National News

  • McCall Steps Aside

    International President Leaves Behind Incomparable Legacy of Advocacy David McCall was 18 years old when he joined Local 6787 and went to work as a millwright at Bethlehem Steel’s sprawling Burns Harb... —

  • Neumann Becomes New SOAR President

    Ken Neumann, who served for 18 years as the USW’s national director for Canada before his retirement in 2022, became the fifth international president of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retire... —

  • USW Local 689 Leverages the Power of Community to Reindustrialize Former Ports Site

    USW Local 689 has had a longstanding inside joke that their zealous political activism, community involvement, and service would all converge on one critical goal: taking over the world.  Their m... —

  • USW Making Rail Operations Safer to Prevent Future Tragedies

    USW members launched an effort in 2024 to make in-plant and in-mill railroad operations safer and to prevent future tragedies with this small job classification. At least 89 Steelworkers have lost the... —

  • BC Miners Push to Improve Workplace Safety and Health

    More than 1,200 members of Local 7619 at the Highland Valley Copper (HVC) mine in British Columbia are working toward improved health and safety for all the miners in the province in the wake of a rep... —