| LOCAL 1899 GRANITE CITY, IL |
We are dedicated to informing our members and building solidarity. It is our pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the membership of United Steelworkers Local 1899. Our Local is proud to represent over 100 years of unbroken unionism at Granite City Steel. Read more >>> Local 1899 and Amalgamated Units* Union Meetings are held at the Tri-Cities Labor Temple, 2014 State Street, Granite City, IL *Credit Union Unit meetings held at the Local 1899 Grievance Hall, 2334 E. 25th Street, Granite City. For meeting times Click Below: Read more >>>USW/USS 2012 Contract negotiations look to begin in earnest this June. However much work will take place locally before then. Read more >>> The USW District 7-Sub District 2 annual scholarship for graduating high school seniors is now available. Read more >>> Walgreens and our prescription provider, Express Scripts, have been unable to reach an agreement in their contact dispute and as a result, effective January 1, 2012 Walgreens will no longer be an In-Network pharmacy. Read more >>> The GCW Community Blood Drive will take place February 21st Read more >>> Steel Market Update: January 26, 2012 Nucor Corporation announced better than expected financial earnings for fourth quarter 2011. The company reported net earnings of $137.1 million up from a net loss of $11.4 million for 4Q10 with a 25% in net sales. However, the fourth quarter was below third quarter 2011 earnings of $181.5 million while net sales dropped 8%. Read more >>>Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW) issued the following statement today, January 25, 2011, on President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “President Obama has listened to us as American workers and laid out a vision of the America we want and need, one that creates jobs and prosperity for us and not the 1% who have looted the economy. Read more >>>January 25, 2012 Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced a positive fourth quarter 2011 with financial results that were considerably better than the prior year’s fourth quarter. Net income for this recent quarter was $30 million, up from $8 million the prior year. The company’s net sales also had gains, up from $1.5 billion in 2010 to $1.9 billion this past quarter. Full-year 2011results were also positive, with net income increasing 98% to $278 while total sales reached $8.0 billion, up from $6.3 billion. Read more >>> January 25, 2012 AK Steel reported its fourth quarter 2011 results, with a net loss of $193.9 million compared to a net loss of $98.3 million 4Q10. Net sales were up from the previous year to $1,509.2 million on shipments of 1,409,900 tons; whereas 2010’s fourth quarter had sales of $1,390.6 million on shipments of 1,359,900 tons. The average selling price was up 5% $1,070 per ton for 4Q11, compared to $1,022 per ton for 4Q10. However, the fourth quarter’s prices were 8% less than 3Q11’s selling prices. Read more >>>  The United Steelworkers stand up and fight back for workers around the world ... Read more >>> January 9, 2012 Six of the 10 states with the highest unemployment have right-to-work laws. North Carolina, a right-to-work state, has a private sector unionization rate of 1.8 percent, the lowest in the nation. It also has the sixth highest unemployment rate: 10 percent. The Great Recession has hit the industrial Midwest especially hard in recent years, from big cities to small factory towns. But now, in at least one small Illinois city, local leaders believe the worst is finally behind them. Sitting across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Louis, Granite City, Ill., has certainly seen better days. In its downtown, there are more boarded-up and empty storefronts and vacant lots than there are businesses. 1-04-12 Doubling down on President Barack Obama's bold recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the White House announced Wednesday that Obama would also use his recess powers to fill three vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency charged with enforcing labor law. Read more >>> December 20, 2011 Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution: buy American-made products. She clearly explained the reasoning: every American dollar spent on an American-made product helps create an American job. Defying Sawyer's admonition to search for "Made in America" tags, California set a record for using government money to create jobs in China. The Golden State awarded a contract for the new Bay Bridge that created 3,000 jobs in China for five years - a period during which the state's unemployment rate persisted at two percentage points above the nation's already high average. Read more >>> December 16, 2011 United Steelworkers International Vice President Tom Conway held a press call today to set the record straight about the millions of dollars that Mitt Romney, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has made as a corporate buyout specialist by eliminating American jobs. Read more >>> December 22, 2011 The U.S. has lost one of its primary defenses against subsidized imports, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. On Monday, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Department of Commerce cannot impose countervailing duties (CVDs) against non-market economies like China. The ruling was based on the court’s interpretation of two laws that would limit CVDs to market economies only. Read more >>> Lewiston Sun Journal | December 29, 2011 | Daily Media Report Members of the state’s congressional delegation are blasting the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s decision not to tag China as a currency manipulator. An anticipated Treasury foreign exchange report released this week acknowledged that the Chinese yuan was undervalued, but the Obama administration stopped short of accusing labeling China a currency manipulator. The issue has been taken up by some congressional lawmakers who believe the currency’s low market value is doubling as a trade subsidy for Chinese exporters while costing American jobs. The value of the yuan has been a concern for labor and manufacturing groups such as the Alliance for American Manufacturing. The organization also represents the interests of Maine paper companies. Read more >>> Stan Johnson, International Secretary-Treasurer of the United Steelworkers (USW), today joined introduction of a major bill, the ‘Invest in American Jobs Act of 2011,’ with Congressman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), the ranking member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, other ranking Democrats and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler. Read more >>> We need jobs. Not unfair trade agreements. Millions of people who are ready, willing and able to work are unemployed or underemployed. But instead of focusing on job creation, Congress is getting ready to take up unfair, job-offshoring trade deals. With more than 25 million people desperately searching for full-time jobs, the last thing our leaders should focus on is these unfair trade deals. It’s the wrong thing to do, and it’s a huge distraction from our jobs crisis. Read more >>> On behalf of the Officers and Executive Board of the United Steelworkers (USW), I would like to welcome your local to LaborWeb for Local Unions. Read more >>> |
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