United Steelworkers on strike outside ArcelorMittal in Shelby

400 United Steelworkers on strike at Alabama aluminum plant

In this installment of USW Artifacts, USW International Secretary-Treasurer Myles Sullivan shares a meaningful story not only in his own Steelworkers lineage, but one that’s also important to Canadian labor history and labor law. Listen as Myles tell the story of the Kirkland Lake, Ontario, where 4,000 miners, including his grandfather, went on strike for the right to organize with the Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, who eventually became members of the United Steelworkers Union in 1967.

United Steelworkers of America v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979): Case Brief Summary

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