Support USW Members Impacted by Hurricane Sandy

Sisters and Brothers,

On October 24th, Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Haiti killing at least 64 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.  By October 26th the storm moved to Cuba killing at least 11 people and causing more than $2 billion in damage.  On October 29th Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the United States battering the US Coastline from Virginia to Massachusetts.  Over the following days the storm moved inland across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and much of New England.

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USW Local 3657 Announces the Launch of Fight Back Pittsburgh

USW Local 3657 is excited to announce the launch of Fight Back Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh-based chapter of the Steelworkers’ Associate Member Program.  Fight Back Pittsburgh is a community based union that stands up for working peoples’ rights in our communities, in our government, and most importantly at work.  You don’t need to work in a specific industry or workplace to join Fight Back Pittsburgh, you just need to believe that working class people deserve fair pay and benefits, access to healthcare, high quality social services, and a brighter future for our kids and grandkids.


To join Fight Back Pittsburgh fill out our quick online sign-up form.

How it works:

Fight Back Pittsburgh will be a democratic, grass roots, member led organization to help bring working class people together to work together to win change on issues that matter to us. In general, Fight Back Pittsburgh will work a lot like a local union.  We’ll meet monthly, we’ll elect our own leaders, and we’ll work together to figure out the best way to fight for the interests of working class people in Pittsburgh.

Through November and December of this year we’ll be working together to get the word out about this exciting program.  Then in January we’ll hold the inaugural assembly of Fight Back Pittsburgh.  At that time we’ll vote on a set of bylaws for our new organization and decide what major initiatives we want to work on in the coming weeks and months.

Decades ago the Steelworkers fought to win good, family sustaining jobs in Pittsburgh and to create social services to give us all a fair shot at success.  We created a decent standard of living for working class people in Pittsburgh once, and together we can do it again. 

Get Out The Vote This Weekend!

This Saturday and Sunday please come out and join our USW sisters and brothers to get out the vote for candidates that will stand for working people.  We’ll be walking door to door in the Pittsburgh area distributing door hangers and talking to voters about the issues that matter to them.

Join us at 5 Gateway Center on Saturday from 10-2 and Sunday from 10-3 to help us get out the vote.

There will be a whole lot of activity going around the building and several different efforts being dispached out of our offices.  We encourage you to join USW members for a Steelworkers block walk by coming up to the Hot Idle ‘War Room’ on the second floor to get your packet to make sure you’re part of the Steelworkers’ get out the vote effort!  If it’s more convenient you can also pick up your packets on Friday so you can get straight out to the doors on Saturday or Sunday morning.
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General Election Day and Pay for Knowledge

Election Day is Around the Corner

General Election Day is fast approaching and there is a lot of important work to be done to elect candidates that will work for working people.  For those of you here in Pittsburgh, I encourage you to think about participating in a phone bank or a block walk here in the building.  Those of you in the field can plug into our Union’s electoral activities wherever you are.

Below, find a schedule of phonebanking activities here in Pittsburgh between now and the election.  For more information contact USW Local 3657 Member Eric Russell aterussell@usw.org

Wednesday, October 31st 10:00am – 5:00pm Email erussell@usw.org to schedule 2nd Floor
5:00 – 8:00pm Hosted by AFLCIO in 1st Floor Lobby 1st Floor and 2nd Floor
Thursday, November 1st 10:00am – 5:00pm Email erussell@usw.orgto schedule 2nd Floor
5:00 – 8:00pm Hosted by USW Officer, TBA 2nd Floor
Friday, November 2nd 10:00am – 5:00pm Email erussell@usw.orgto schedule 2nd Floor
Saturday, November 3rd 9:00am – 1:00pm Canvassing, Hosted by AFLCIO in 1st Floor Lobby 1st Floor
Sunday, November 4th Off
Monday, November 5th 10:00am – 5:00pm Email erussell@usw.orgto schedule 2nd Floor
5:00 – 8:00pm Hosted by USW Officer, TBA 2nd Floor
Tuesday, November 6th 9:00am – ???? Email erussell@usw.orgto schedule 2nd Floor

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This Week! Local 3657 Phone Bank and Union Meeting!

On Tuesday, October 23, USW Local 3657 will be hosting a phone banking night for endorsed candidates for the November 6th General Election.  The phone banks will run out of the 2nd floor call center and will begin at 5pm and run until approximately 8pm (if you are available to start earlier feel free to come down to the 2nd floor as early as 4pm!).  You are all welcome to invite your families and friends to join us as well.   The local will be providing food so please RSVP to Lori Bookwood lbookwood@usw.org if you can attend!

Show your solidarity with Local 3657 and wear your black Local 3657 t-shirt to the phone bank!

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2012 Civil Rights Conference Report

Dear President Young:

I must first say thank you to the Executive Board and the membership for allowing me to represent our local at the 16th International Civil & Human Rights Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio entitled the Power of the Ballot.

The conference was outstanding.  I thoroughly enjoyed it, Fred Redmond and Amanda Green-Hawkins did a wonderful job.  We were blessed to be honored and given presentations from several people including our wonderful President Leo Gerard, Dave McCall, Director, District 1, Douglas Sizemore, Mark Mallory, Mayor of Cincinnati, Stan Johnson, International Secretary-Treasurer, Ike Gittlen, Mike Scarver, Director, PAC, Hillary Chiz, Marsha Zakowski, Ann Flener, The Honorable Marcia Fudge, US Representative, 11th District just to name a few of the presenters.  They all were great!

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Meeting Reminder, Union Label, Pay for Knowledge and Wellness@USW

Meeting Reminder!

As a reminder, our regularly scheduled local union meeting is on Thursday, September 27th at 12:30 eastern time in the lobby conference room at the USW Headquarters.  If you’re in the building please try to attend, if you’re not in the building you can watch the meeting live in the members only section of our local union websitewww.USWlocal3657.org.
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Meeting Reminder

Meeting Reminder.

As a reminder, the Local 3657 Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 30 at 12:30 eastern in the lobby conference room at the International Headquarters.  If you’re in town please plan on participating.

If you’re not in Pittsburgh, you can participate in the meeting via live stream in the Members section of our local union’s website at http://www.USWLocal3657.org.

If you have something that you would like to add to the agenda under New Business for the local union meeting, please e-mail Patrick Young at pyoung@usw.org.

We look forward to seeing you at the local union meeting this month!!