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The United Steelworkers is currently affiliated with the [[AFL–CIO]] in the United States and the [[Canadian Labour Congress]] (CLC) in Canada as well as several international union federations. On July 2, 2008, the United Steelworkers signed an agreement to merge with the United Kingdom and Ireland–based union [[Unite (trade union)|Unite]] to form a new global union entity called [[Workers Uniting]].

 

 

Rank-and-file members, as well as representatives, of the United Steelworkers refer to themselves, and are most often referred to, as Steelworkers. The use of the capitalized single word ''Steelworker'' or ''Steelworkers'', as opposed to the lowercase two-worded ''steel worker'' or ''steel workers'', is also an identifier of those who are part of, or affiliated with, the United Steelworkers International Union rather than being general non-union workers within the steel industry. This distinction is important in North America wherein a vast majority of the steel industry is unionized. For example, some of the most recognizable and largest companies in the business such as United States Steel (USS) and Cleveland-Cliffs, with their combined hourly workforces at facilities in North America being Steelworkers and represented by the USW, including the largest facilities on the continent, like US Steel's Gary Works in Gary, Indiana, Cleveland-Cliffs's Burns Harbor in Burns Harbor, Indiana, Indiana Harbor East and West in Northwest Indiana, and Cleveland Plant in Cleveland, Ohio, all of which are situated on the Great Lakes freshwater system. On the other hand, some steel companies, usually at facilities known as "mini-mills", like [[Nucor]] Steel and its facility in Crawfordsville, Indiana, are non-union shops not represented by the United Steelworkers.

The founder and first president of the USW, [[Philip Murray]], led the union through its first organizing drives and its first decade, when the workers of USW went on strike several times to win the right to [[collective bargaining|bargain collectively]] with steel companies.

 

 

==Growth of the union==

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In October 2009, the USW announced a framework for collaboration between US and Canadian Steelworkers with [[Mondragon Corporation|Mondragon Internacional, S.A.]], the world's largest federation of [[worker cooperative]]s.<ref>[http://www.usw.org/media_center/releases_advisories?id=0234 USW Site announcement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308182027/http://www.usw.org/media_center/releases_advisories?id=0234 |date=March 8, 2010 }} of USW-Mondragon Collaboration October 2009</ref>

 

==2008 transoceanic merger==

 

==American politics==

 

 

 

==Canadian politics==

* [[George Becker (labor leader)|George Becker]], 1994–2001

* [[Leo Gerard]], 2001–2019

 

==See also==

==Further reading==

* Bodnar, John (1977). ''[https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98622610 Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940]''.

* Caballero, Mary Hull (Spring 2006). [http://journal.heinz.cmu.edu/PDF%20Files/Current%20PDFs/HeinzSightLeoGerard.pdf "Interview with Leo Gerard"]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[The Heinz Journal]]''.

* Catano, James V. (2001). ''[https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105228668 Ragged Dicks: Masculinity, Steel, and the Rhetoric of the Self-Made Man]''.

 

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[[Category:International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions]]