Steelworkers

Steelworkers’ hall rededicated to workers killed building union

December 6, 2009 By Scott Marshall

Local 1010 of the United Steelworkers union (USW) is proud of its militant history and its rededicated union hall.

Feeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here

November 19, 2009 By Susan Webb

Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.

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...