January 3, 2023 USW Training CoordinatorRusty Reynolds(270) 816‐4174 The United Steelworkers Union (USW) Local 8‐550, Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership (FRNP), the Tony Mazzocchi Center for Health, Safety, and Environmental Education, the Paducah Chamber of Commerce, Local and State Leaders, and the West Kentucky Community and Technical College announced they are Read more…

This year’s Christmas in the park will be at Bob Noble park on Saturday, December 3rd 2022. The lights will be on from 5:30PM to 9:30PM USW is seeking roughly 6 – 10 Volunteers for each of the following shifts: 1st Crew: Arrive at 5:00PM2nd Crew: Arrive at 7:30PM If Read more…

The Worker’s Health Protection Program “in-person appointments and consultations” have now resumed, following the COVID-19 virus and social distancing, which temporarily stopped the program and meeting individuals during the pandemic. The WHPP Coordinators Mr. Barry Anderson and Mr. Jim Key will be normally available each Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00 Read more…

Our Founding Principles

The work of Steelworkers Organizing Committee begin in 1942 with a set of founding principles – values that still guide us today:To unite in one organization, regardless of creed, color or nationality, all workmen and working women eligible for membership.To increase the wages, and improve the conditions of employment of our members by legislation, joint agreements or other legitimate means.

1. ​To endeavor to obtain by joint negotiation or legislative enactment a six-hour day and five-day week.
2. To strive for a minimum wage scale for all members of our organization.
3. To provide for the education of our children by lawfully prohibiting their employment until they have reached eighteen years of age.
4. To secure equitable statutory old-age pension, workman’s compensation and unemployment insurance laws.
5. To enforce existing just laws and to secure the repeal of those which are unjust.
6. To secure by legislative enactment, laws protecting the limbs, lives and health of our members; (laws) establishing our right to organize; (laws) preventing the employment of privately armed guards during labor disputes and such other legislation as will be beneficial.

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