Category Archives: Membership Updates
May Day March for Immigrant Rights!
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5pm, Wednesday May 1–Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers Hall
May 1st has been historically linked to international workers’ rights. It started, May 1 1886 when the U.S. Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions – which included immigrant workers from all over — ruled that an 8 hour work day, would be a full and legal work day. The ruling class refused, causing riots and the long and even deadly battle to win rights for workers. It wasn’t long before workers from all over the world began protesting and standing up for their rights. While we may think we have secured safe conditions, the promise of a minimum wage and overtime after a 40 hour work week for all working people, the truth is that we have much more work to do. The battle that began between the ruling class and the working class in 1886 is still smoldering today.
Workers Memorial Day–April 29th
Join USW Local 3657 this Workers’ Memorial Day to remember the workers who lost their lives on the jobs and fight like hell for the workers who are still struggling to win safe workplaces.
April 29th, 2013
9:30 am-Memorial for fallen Steelworkers at the USW Headquarters (60 Stanwix St)
12 noon-Allegheny County Labor Council Workers Memorial Day Commemoration in Market Square
Protected: March President’s Report
Protected: Proposed Agenda for March 28, 2013
Stand Up, Fight Back for Immigration Reform
Fight Back for Immigrant Rights
On Monday, March 25th, join USW Local 3657’s Civil Rights Committee for a brown-bag presentation on the fight for comprehensive immigration reform.
Monday, March 25, 12 noon
USW Headquarters, Lobby Conference Room
If you’re unable to participate in person, you can view the event live online at www.USWLocal3657.org
A Path To Citizenship: The AFL-CIO’s Agenda for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Since 2000 the U.S. labor movement has been a leader in the fight to achieve a path to citizenship for the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. In this hour-long workshop participants will hear about and discuss:
Working Women Building a Democratic Labor Movement in Liberia
Join the USW Local 3657 Women of Steel Committee for a Brown Bag Discussion—Working Women Building a Democratic Labor Movement in Liberia
Thursday, March 14
12 Noon
USW Headquarters
Lobby Conference Room
Oretha Tarnue, the Vice President of the United Workers Union of Liberia (UWUL) will be joining the USW Local 3657 Women of Steel Committee for a special brown bag discussion on the growing labor movement in Liberia. The UWUL represents workers in a variety of sectors including forestry and mining. UWUL recently won a major victory for mining workers at the ArcelorMittal iron ore mines in Liberia winning union representation and, for the first time ever, a union contract at the mines.
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Brown Bag on Right to Work
Join the Local 3657 Rapid Response Team for a brownbag lunch presentation on right-wing efforts to pass a ‘Right to Work’ bill here in Pennsylvania.
Thursday, March 7th
12 noon
USW Headquarters—4th Floor
If you can’t participate in person the event will be livestreamed atwww.USWLocal3657.org
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Protected: President’s Report—February 2013
Lend A Hand for the Women of Steel Conference
The Women of Steel Conference is fast approaching and we are asking all our WOS from Local 3657 to lend a hand!
Ann Flener and Emily Jefferson are asking for our help putting together the welcome packets that will be distributed at registration to our sisters from across the world.
Join us on the 9th floor conference room on Friday, March 1 and, if needed, Monday, March 4, 2013. Stop by anytime (make sure to clear this with your department head if you are coming any other time but your lunch hour).
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