United States 1942 On 22 May 1942 the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), a group established by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to organize the largest nonunion industry in the United States, adopted its first constitution at...

United States 1973 After decades of using nationwide strikes as a collective bargaining tool, the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) in 1973 entered into an "Experimental Negotiating Agreement" with the major U.S. steel companies....

The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (United Steelworkers or USW) is the largest industrial labor union in North America, and claims over 1.2 million active and...

The United Steelworkers of America held its 26th constitutional convention, commemorating 50 years of existence, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the locus of much of the union's history. The 2,300 delegates, representing more than 600,000 members in basic steel, allied industries, and a wide range...

Steelworkers press organizing and coordinated bargaining The United Steelworkers of America (AFL-CIO, CLC) held its 23rd constitutional convention in Las Vegas, NV, August 25-29, 1986. Some 2,800 delegates took action to implement the two major themes of the convention: celebrating the union's...

Major labor endorsements made early in the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential primary:___2008 Democratic Presidential Primary:Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York:_ United Transportation Union. Endorsed in August 2007._ International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Endorsed in August 2007._ Transportation Communication Union. Endorsed in...

Union workers at Appalachian Regional Healthcare hospitals went on strike in two states amid a contract dispute already marred by one picket line scuffle.ARH planned to keep its nine hospitals in Kentucky and West Virginia operating despite the walkout, spokeswoman Candace S. Elkins said. The...