Steelworkers
Deadly explosions kill 31 energy workers in one week
April 6, 2010ANACORTES, Wash.---Families and co-workers of six oil workers killed in a refinery explosion here April 2 were mourning their dead when three days later another explosion, this one in a West Virginia coal mine killed 25...
Read moreFrank Lumpkin, “Saint of Chicago,” dies at 93
March 10, 2010Frank Lumpkin, the "Saint of Chicago" and life long fighter for worker rights, full equality and socialism, passed away March 1 at the age of 93.
Read moreSteelworkers’ hall rededicated to workers killed building union
December 6, 2009Local 1010 of the United Steelworkers union (USW) is proud of its militant history and its rededicated union hall.
Read moreFeeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here
November 19, 2009Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.
Read moreForeign companies getting bulk of green stimulus
November 10, 2009Of the $1.05 billion of stimulus funds handed out for clean energy grants since Sept. 1, 84 percent - $849 million - has gone to foreign wind companies.
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