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USW-11-03.Pdf INSIDEUSW@WORK Rebuilding America’s manufacturing base is “ central to rebuilding our nation’s economy. Richard Trumka AFL-CIO President, May 4, 2011 ” INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD Leo W. Gerard International President Stan Johnson Int’l. Secretary-Treasurer 04 08 Thomas M. Conway Int’l. Vice President ARTISTRY IN METAL RG STEEL (Administration) USW members working for Wendell August Some 6,000 USW members have ratified Forge maintain a tradition of quality craftsman- a contract with newly-formed RG Steel, Fred Redmond ship at the decorative metalwork business, which which purchased facilities from Severstal, Int’l. Vice President burned to the ground a year ago in 2010. the Russian steelmaker. (Human Affairs) Ken Neumann Nat’l. Dir. for Canada Jon Geenen Int’l. Vice President Gary Beevers 12 14 Int’l. Vice President INTERNATIONAL PAPER WE ARE ONE USW members at 15 local unions at Inter- The USW participated in multiple rallies on Carol Landry national Paper Co. mill locations overwhelmingly April 4 as part of the AFL-CIO’s “We Are One” Vice President at Large ratified a new four-year contract that covers campaign, meant to pay tribute to Dr. Martin 6,000 workers and sets a bargaining standard. Luther King Jr. and his fight for social justice. DIRECTORS FEATURES ON THE COVER David R. McCall, District 1 Speaking Out 03 Union activists participate in USW-led rallies across the country. Michael Bolton, District 2 CAPITOL LETTERS 33 News Bytes 34 Stephen Hunt, District 3 William J. Pienta, District 4 Daniel Roy, District 5 Wayne Fraser, District 6 Jim Robinson, District 7 Ernest R. “Billy” Thompson, District 8 Volume 06/No.3 Spring 2011 Daniel Flippo, District 9 COMMUNICATIONS STAFF: Official publication of the United Steelworkers Jim McKay, Editor Direct inquiries and articles for USW@Work to: John DeFazio, District 10 Wayne Ranick, Director of Communications United Steelworkers Communications Department Robert Bratulich, District 11 Gary Hubbard, Director of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C. Five Gateway Center Aaron Hudson and Kenny Carlisle, Designers Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Robert LaVenture, District 12 Lynne Baker, Jim Coleman, Deb Davidek, phone 412-562-2400 J.M. “Mickey” Breaux, District 13 Connie Mabin, Tony Montana, Scott Weaver, fax 412-562-2445 Barbara White Stack online: www.usw.org USW@Work (ISSN 1931-6658) is published four times a year by the United Steelworkers AFL-CIO•CLC Five Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Subscriptions to non-members: $12 for one year; $20 for two years. Periodicals postage paid at Pittsburgh, PA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: USW@Work, USW Membership Department, 3340 Perimeter Hill Drive, Nashville, TN 37211 Copyright 2011 by United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO•CLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written consent of the United Steelworkers. 2 USW@Work • Spring 2011 Big Money Waiting to Pounce Fighting for Everyone This is an open letter to all those naive under For a while there I was really worried that age 60 people who say the era of the labor union people just didn’t get unions and were going to do is past. They have the idea that benefits such as nothing. I really love what I’m seeing. I now know the 40-hour week, time and one-half for overtime, there are a lot of people who get it. Even nonunion vacations, health care, pensions, safe working con- people get it. Unions are the backbone of this coun- ditions and other benefits were won, and we don’t try. They fight for everyone. need to worry about those things anymore. Glen Dunaway, Local 735 President Well guess what, big money hasn’t given up. Cleveland, Ohio They were waiting for the right moment to pounce and wipe those benefits out. All the blood, sweat and tears of my father’s generation and my genera- Proud to Stand Up tion that were put into gaining a respectable life for I am very proud to stand in unity with union the working person can be gone in an instant, and brothers and sisters who stood beside us during our politicians are doing it right in front of our eyes. lockout by one of the biggest union busting corpo- I am 84 and it won’t harm me much, but rations in the world: Honeywell International. younger folks are going to get a hard lesson in real- Only with the help of the USW International ity. Greedy people are like hogs at a feed bin. They could a small local of 230 dare stand up to our em- push one another out so the biggest hog can get ployer. Now we are road warriors and attend rallies more. That’s what is happening with your pay day to support others in their fight against those trying and good-paying jobs. to destroy the middle class. In Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa – at every Donald Renzenbrink, Local 2879 event we find new friends and allies in the war Poland, Ohio against the middle class. Luckie Atkinson, Local 7-669 VEBA Thank You Metropolis, Ill. Thank you for the VEBA (trust fund benefits for retirees who lost health care coverage in bank- ruptcies). I sincerely appreciate the union. My late Don’t Worry About What I Watch husband was a member from 1955 to 1982, retiring I am a very proud, vocal union member who from the LTV Cleveland Works. Thank you for actually attends my local union meetings without being there for us retirees and surviving spouses. fail. Now that said I would like to make it clear that You have been a life savior to me. I don’t agree with your blatant partisan politics. Do you really think that I am going to suddenly Novella Reese tune in Ed Schultz because it is approved by the Mountain City, Tenn. higher ups at the USW? Are you kidding me? Both sides in this little culture war are idiots. Buy American, But How? How about concerning yourself more with the I am retired. All I read is buy union and buy needs of the rank and file and not worrying so American made, but I don’t see any articles that much about how we vote or what we watch on TV? tell us what is made in this country. I believe Douglas Hansen, Local 12934 unions should help us make American decisions. Weidman, Mich. Vince Castelli, SOAR Levittown, Pa. We’re Being Screwed I was a member of USW for 30 years until Praying for Jobs and Workers Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, Ill. shut I am thankful for the fact that my husband down. I was and still am proud to have been a USW active and retired worked for Goodyear Tire at Union City, Tenn., union member. members and their before he died with Alzheimer’s disease in l987. But the reason I am writing is that I am very families are invited to His union affiliation has been a godsend for me. unhappy with the state of America. We the people “speak out” on these I am troubled that Republicans are trying to are being screwed in every way possible and in my pages. Letters should be bust the unions … I’m 78 years old and praying opinion there are only a couple of ways to fix this. short and to the point. for good union jobs and workers. We need jobs One way is an American Bastille Day, but this We reserve the right to here and more goods made in America. would be an all-out revolution. A better way would edit for length. Bless all union leaders and workers. I’m so be to have a national union with all working people proud of workers in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and as members. If someone is getting screwed over, Mail to: all who stand against the Scott Walkers of this the entire country would be with them. USW@Work world. Five Gateway Center, Rick Stoudt, Retired Local 63 Pittsburgh PA 15222 Patsy Wilkerson Rock Falls, Ill. or e-mail: Dresden, Tenn. [email protected] USW@Work • Spring 2011 3 Greg Summerville, left, and Bill Saunders, work polishing wheels USW Photos by Steve Dietz 4 USW@Work • Spring 2011 alk into any home said Local Unit Chair Ed Hodge. where a hand-crafted “We dug through the rubble, piece of Wendell recovering anvils, hammers and August Forge giftware various scorched but salvageable Wis displayed and you might think you tools,” he said. are viewing an exquisite heirloom Will Knecht, the company’s made by European artisans. president and current owner, said In reality, Wendell August Forge employees “have done a phenom- is American-made artwork produced enal job” in getting the business up by Steelworkers who are keeping and running in a temporary location. alive a business that has for 88 years “They literally worked around furnished generations with distinc- the clock after the fire, never a tive decorative metalwork. complaint; an amazing group of em- With the help of its employees, ployees,” he said. “I am proud to be customers and the local community, associated with workers who have the company is rising like a phoenix a true dedication to their job, and a from the ashes of a devastating fire work ethic that is beyond compare.” that destroyed its shop last year on Knecht said during the fire, “Ev- Jason Fletcher March 6. eryone was watching, wondering, as “It’s rewarding for me to make our building was engulfed in flames, something that customers will ‘have I just lost my job?’ value as a keepsake gift, something “But we rose together as a group, that they will cherish,’’ said Jason digging our dies from the still smol- Fleischer, a member of Local 6346- dering ashes to begin the renewal 15 and one of 40 employees hired process.
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