Feeds
The United Steelworkers union said Saturday that its members at tiremaker Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire LLC ratified new four-year contracts covering 4,500 workers at six tire and rubber product plants.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said Tuesday that a new national contract with the United Steelworkers union will save the company $215 million over the four-year life of the agreement.
A tentative contract between the United Steelworkers and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. protects six of seven U.S. tire plants from closing for the next four years.
Thousands of workers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plants in seven states will vote in the coming days on a tentative national contract agreement.
National contract talks between the United Steelworkers union and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have reached an intense stage focused on protecting jobs, keeping plants open and addressing health care costs, the union said Friday.
For the second time, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers of America have extended their national contract, this time until Aug. 29.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers of America have extended their national contract four weeks until Aug. 15, both sides said Tuesday.
Refinery workers who belong to the United Steelworkers union will receive a 3 percent pay increase and a $2,500 signing bonus as part of a new tentative pay package with employers, the union said Friday.
The United Steelworkers and ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer, agreed Saturday to a tentative four-year contract.
Russian metals and mining company OAO Severstal offered Tuesday to buy Esmark Inc. for $17 per share in cash, claiming it has the critical support of the United Steelworkers union.
The United Steelworkers union endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Thursday, giving the Illinois senator a powerful advocate in attracting blue-collar voters.
John Edwards won the endorsement of the United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America as more than 1,000 union members cheered the Democratic presidential candidate.
The United Steelworkers union is turning to the popular video-sharing site YouTube to question the safety of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. tires being made while 12,000 union workers in the United States and Canada are on strike.
Obama caves to union on tire tariffs". . .The president smote China because a single union, the United Steelworkers, asked him to. It represents rubber workers, but only those responsible for 47 percent of U.S. tiremaking. The president's action will not create more than a negligible number of jobs, if any.
US Steelworkers tell Congress: Back Iraq Oil Workers' UnionUnited Steelworkers Union has called upon Congress to stop implementation of the Iraq Oil Law as it stands and support labor organizing by the Iraqi oil workers. Iraq under the US has the same policy toward labor organizing as under Saddam Hussein: Unions are forbidden.
Coca-Cola: Made with Torture, Murder, and Unlawful Detention?For nearly four years, the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke (www.killercoke.org) has focused attention on The Coca-Cola Company's gross human rights abuses at its bottling plants in Colombia while educating the public about Coke's unethical and criminal behavior worldwide.
Log In | Register
