U.S. Steel brings pension battle to Hamilton
By Bob Mann People’s Voice, Sept. 2010 Just over a year ago, U.S. Steel locked out employees at its Nanticoke Plant. On the evening of August 2, 2009, security escorted 150 members of United Steelworkers 8782 out of the Lake Eire Works to join approximately 800 workers who had already been laid off that spring. For nine months the union held out against the company’s... Read More
Steelworkers head to Ottawa
People’s Voice, Dec 1 2010 By Liz Rowley A busload of Hamilton’s locked out steelworkers went to Ottawa Nov. 15 to press Local 1005 USW’s demand that the federal court grant the union intervenor status in the case of the Attorney General vs US Steel. They also met with Tory MP David Sweet, Chair of Parliament’s All‑Party Steel Caucus and of... Read More
Historic miner’s strike ends in Sudbury
By Liz Rowley People’s Voice Newspaper, Sept. 2010 Three hundred and sixty days after it started, the strike of 3,300 miners, mill and smelterworkers in Sudbury and Port Colborne against Vale Inco, the second largest mining company in the world, is over. By a vote of 75.5% at Local 6500 in Sudbury, and 74% at Local 6200 in Port Colborne, the United Steelworkers... Read More
Sudbury strikers dig in for long winter
People’s Voice, Dec. 1st 2009 By Liz Rowley The word on the picket lines at Vale Inco’s Sudbury mines is that it will be a long winter. But however long it takes, striking miners, mill workers and smelter workers will be there one day longer. About 3,000 members of Local 6500 USWA, plus another 1,000 from Port Colborne, Ontario and Voisey’s Bay, are... Read More
