Steelworkers

Foreign companies getting bulk of green stimulus

November 10, 2009 By Susan Webb

Of the $1.05 billion of stimulus funds handed out for clean energy grants since Sept. 1, 84 percent - $849 million - has gone to foreign wind companies.

U.S. Steelworkers to experiment with factory ownership, Mondragon style

November 5, 2009 By Carl Davidson

The United Steelworkers union, North America's largest industrial trade union, announced a new collaboration with the world's largest worker-owned cooperative, Mondragon International.

B.D. Amis, Black Communist and labor leader

November 19, 2004 By Barry D. Amis

While little known today, during the late 1920s and the 1930s, B.D. Amis was one of a small cadre of African Americans leading the fight for workers’ rights and racial justice. Urbane in demeanor and a...

LTV steelworkers take the fight to DC

December 14, 2001 By Pat McKinney

PITTSBURGH – Fresh from a Dec. 7 victory in bankruptcy court giving them a temporary stay in the battle to prevent LTV Steel Corporation from liquidating facilities in Ohio and Indiana, rank-and-file members of the United...