Murray, as head of both the CIO and the Steelworkers, wanted to avoid a wave of mass strikes in favor of high-level negotiations with employers, with government intervention to balance wage demands with price controls.

The government returned the mills to their owners hours later, and the Steelworkers struck.

From a tactical perspective, both sides focused on the wrong issues: the government stressed the ultimate constitutional issue of whether the President had the power to seize the mills in its papers, while the steel companies appeared to be shying away from that issue by focusing on the equities and asking the Court merely to enjoin the federal government from entering into a collective bargaining agreement with the Steelworkers.

It first, however, formally requested that Judge Pine stay his order, and permit the government to resume control of the plants, ending the strike by the Steelworkers.

The United Auto Workers shut down the auto plants of General Motors ; UE struck GE, Westinghouse, and the GM electrical division, and the United Steelworkers stopped work in the basic steel industry.

The union eventually settled for the same wage increase that the Steelworkers and the UE had gotten in their negotiations ; GM not only did not concede any of its managerial authority, but never even bargained over the UAW ’ s proposals over its pricing policies.

Goldberg, speaking for the Steelworkers, addressed whether the Taft-Hartley Act would have allowed for injunctive relief in these circumstances.

" Goldberg, speaking for the Steelworkers, addressed whether the Taft-Hartley Act would have allowed for injunctive relief in these circumstances.

But Truman refused to invoke the Taft-Hartley's cooling-off provisions or seek an injunction against the Steelworkers.

The Steelworkers began their strike within minutes of the announcement of the injunction.

The CGT leader José Alonso became one of her main advisers in Perón's dispute against Steelworkers ' leader Augusto Vandor's Popular Union faction during mid-term elections in 1965 ; Alonso and Vandor were both later assassinated in as-yet unexplained circumstances.

Only Local 598 in Sudbury, Ontario, which had a contentious and sometimes violent history with the city's Steelworkers locals, voted against the merger — it remained autonomous until 1993, when it merged with the Canadian Auto Workers.

The UAW went on strike against GM in November 1945 ; the Steelworkers, UE and Packinghouse Workers struck in January 1946.

The first step was to project the image of the 1951 five-cent piece against a large wall at the Sudbury Steelworkers Hall.

CIO leaders such as Philip Murray of the Steelworkers and Walter Reuther of the UAW responded to these attacks by purging their own unions of radicals, and by attacking those CIO unions, such as UE, that held out against the red-baiting tide.

Others, such as Mine, Mill, survived ; it later merged with its ideological opponent, the Steelworkers, just as the Farm Equipment union eventually was absorbed by the UAW.

The group included Sweeney ; Gerald McEntee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME ); Owen Bieber of the United Auto Workers ( UAW ); George Becker of the United Steelworkers of America ( USWA ); Ron Carey of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ( IBT ); Arthur Coia of the Laborers ' International Union of North America ( LIUNA ); Wayne Glenn of the United Paperworkers International Union ( UPIU ); Frank Hanley of the International Union of Operating Engineers ( IUOE ); George Kourpias of the International Association of Machinists ( IAM ); Sigurd Lucassen of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America ( UBC ); and Richard Trumka of the United Mine Workers of America ( UMWA ).

From the CIO side the merger was promoted by David McDonald of the Steelworkers and his top aide Arthur J. Goldberg.

Goldberg also served as general counsel of the United Steelworkers of America.

Murray began by removing Bridges from his position as the California Regional Director for the CIO and firing Lee Pressman as General Counsel of both the Steelworkers and the CIO.

Lee Pressman, the General Counsel for the CIO and later the United Steelworkers of America, was a member of the CP and the underground Ware group involved in espionage for the Soviet Union.

Murray began by removing Bridges from his position as the California Regional Director for the CIO and firing Lee Pressman as General Counsel of both the Steelworkers and the CIO.

Government and Service Employees ’ Union, Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Communication Energy and Paperworkers, Council of Canadians, Douglas-Coldwell Foundation, Hospital Employees ’ Union, National Union of Public and General Employees, Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Ontario Secondary School Teachers ’ Federation, Public Service Alliance of Canada, and United Steelworkers.

In 1974, the Department of Justice and the United Steelworkers of America came to an agreement on the largest-to-then quota program, for steel unions.

The 1977-78 coal miners ' strike and developments like Steelworkers Fight Back were among the events pointed to in arguing for this change in policy.

Some, such as the Steelworkers, had always been centralized organizations in which authority for major decisions resided at the top.

He was employed for over two decades at the Great Northern Paper Company and remains a member of the United Steelworkers.

Employees for Inco in Canada are represented by the United Steelworkers throughout all the mergers.

Because of the mergers the United Steelworkers signed an agreement with all the unions that represent mining workers in countries where Vale / Inco operate to ”... work together cooperatively and strategically as global partners, to build the bargaining power of workers ” The unions include Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores no Setor Minera, SINTICIM, Union syndicale des ouvriers et employés de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Union des Syndicats des Travailleurs Kanak et Exploités, Fagforbundet for Industri og Energi, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, and the United Steelworkers.

Gerry Barr is the 1996 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for the creation of the Steelworkers Humanity Fund.

Borowski was Vice-President of the United Steelworkers of America Local 6166 in 1964-65, and helped to win municipal incorporation for Thompson at around the same time.

He was also an aide to Charles Millard in organizing the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and was active in rooting out Communists in the fledgling Steelworkers union and was the union's public relations director for many years.

From 1940 until his retirement in 1972, Cotterill worked as public relations director of the Canadian Steelworkers and was also an occasional columnist for the Toronto Star.

In October 2010, it was revealed that Sihota is being paid a salary for his position as President, with payments from The Canadian Union of Public Employees, United Steelworkers and the BC Federation of Labour.

The Court set aside five hours for oral argument by the parties, while allowing the Steelworkers and the railroad unions to speak as amicus curiae.

He was a mill worker and supervisor at Great Northern Paper Company in East Millinocket, from 1973 until his election to Congress in 2002, during which time he was a member of the United Steelworkers.

He was the first president of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee ( SWOC ), the first president of the United Steelworkers of America ( USWA ), and the longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ).

Abel, President of US Steelworkers of American

Reuther was spurred toward merger by the threats from David J. McDonald, Murray ’ s successor as President of the Steelworkers, who disliked Reuther intensely, insulted him publicly and flirted with disaffiliation from the CIO.

President Harry S. Truman attempted to take over its steel mills in 1952 to resolve a crisis with its union, the United Steelworkers of America.

Toomey won re-election to a second term by defeating Ed O ' Brien, President of the Bethlehem-based United Steelworkers Local 2598, 53 %- 47 %.

" Carolyn Egan, President of the Steelworkers Toronto Area Council, stated that Steel workers “ Respect CUPE Ontario's record of solidarity with the oppressed, both inside and outside the labour movement, and respect CUPE Ontario's initiative to educate its members and the entire labour movement on the plight of the people of Palestine, and to take practical action in defence of Palestinian human rights.

* Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers