USW and Unite Plan Global Strategy at National Grid
28 July 2010

Steelworkers and Unite representatives met in Boston, Massachusetts today to build their relationship at common employer National Grid. They also planned for a meeting with the company the following day more >

Support Striking Swedish Paper Workers
21 April 2010

Some 3,000 paper workers at mills across Sweden are on stroke and production at the mills has come to a complete standstill. This is due to action from the Swedish Paper Workers Union Pappers more >

 

USW Reaches Agreement with GP over P-Pay
March 2010

At last summer’s council meeting there was much discussion about GP’s administration of its performance pay (P-Pay) program. Since the companygives its managers leeway in administering the program at each site, there were differences in how the program operates at different facilities more >

 

Union challenges invitation of British National Party to US conference
27 January 2010

Leaders of the largest trade unions in the UK, Ireland, North America and Canada have made a fierce protest against the decision of a large hotel chain to host a conference due to be addressed by the leader of the far right British National Party (BNP) Nick Griffin more >


Global union calls on governments to support steelworkers

15 December 2009

This week at the International Metal Workers Federation executive meeting in Geneva, Workers Uniting is calling for support of 1,700 Corus steelworkers from Teesside in the UK facing redundancy more >

Global union launches investigation into Department of Health NHS preferred private bidders

26 November 2009

At a conference attended by hundreds of trade union activists in the UK, Workers Uniting will launch an investigation into private U.S.-based healthcare providers who are bidding for work in the National Health Service (NHS). The conference will be attended by senior workplace representatives from the UK, Ireland and USA more >

US safety study prompts transatlantic campaign to prevent deaths in paper industry

23 November 2009

A recent increase in workplace fatalities and serious injuries in the paper industry may have been brought on by employers trying to increase profit margins at the expense of health and safety, the world’s first global union said as it prepares to launch an investigation of the UK industry more >

Global union picket in the City of London
9 November 2009

Members of Unite the union will today (Monday 9th), mount a picket outside a Deutsche Bank metals conference in the City of London. The protest organized by the global union Workers Uniting is in support of striking mineworkers from Vale Inco in Canada more >

Workers Uniting questions Vale’s cancellation of investor events

21 October 2009

Workers Uniting, the world’s first international union, has criticised Vale’s recent decision to cancel planned investor events in New York and London as more evidence of a company in disarray more >

WU calls on Sappi CEO to return to negotiations
15 October 2009

Global union calls for CEO to negotiate with unions in Netherlands to resolve a dispute over the pay and terms and conditions of 8oo workers more >

Global union defends human & labour rights in Colombia
12 October 2009

Workers Uniting, the world’s first international union, has expressed dismay about the attacks levelled against critics of the Colombia Free Trade Agreements by Colombian Vice-President, Francisco Santos in Brussels more >


AFL-CIO convention wraps up with message of unity, global solidarity
17 September 2009

The AFL-CIO convention wrapped up today with several key moments, including the rejoining of UNITE HERE to the federation and a special award given to the daugher of a slain Colombian trade unionist more >


USW sends letter to Clinton condemning punishment of Drummond miners in Colombia
17 September 2009

USW International President Leo W. Gerard has sent Secretary of State Hilary Clinton a letter condemning the punishment of workers in Colombia more >


Workers Uniting union counters the lies in U.S. health care debate
19 August 2009

Workers Uniting, the world’s first international union, has launched an attack on the lies and misinformation being spread in the USA by opponents of President Obama’s health insurance reform plan more >

Reps from the paper and pulp industry in US and Canada come together for their collective bargaining conference
5-7 August 2009

They were joined in their discussions on negotiating pay and benefits by reps from Unite the Union from the UK more >