Welcome to United Steelworkers Local 1023
We are the Unionized employees for Yokohama Tire, based in Salem, Virginia and our organizational objectives are: (a) To unite all workers employed in or about the Yokohama Tire Corporation, in Salem, Virginia, in this industrial Union. (b) To establish adequate wages and improve the working conditions for all workers in the plant or amalgamated units. (c) To maintain an agreement with the Yokohama Tire Corporation, as to wages rates of pay, hours of employment, and to seek through an agreement to establish preference of employment of Local Union no. 1023 (d) To cooperate with our fellow workers employed by the Company and other allied industries throughout the world to establish uniform rates of pay and other conditions of employment in all such factories to the end the competition between employees working in different plants will be abolished. (e) To assist in the adoption of laws for the economic and social welfare of all workers. (f) To advance the economic, political, social and cultural interest of workers in the industry.(g) To protect and extend our democratic institutions and the civil rights and liberties of all workers.
United Steelworkers District 8 Welfare and Education Fund Scholarships
Eligible candidates are students leaving high school and entering into college who are any son, daughter or legal waard of an active, retired or deceased member of Local 1023. Make sure the form you enter has "USW LOCAL 1023" listed in the appropriate boxes. Also the essay is mandatory. Applications must be postmarked on or before the FOURTH friday in FEBRUARY, 2012. Click the link below to download the forms.
RESULTS OF THE RECENT 2012 SHUT-DOWN VOTE ARE AS FOLLOWS:
440 YES to 91 NO
DIVISION AND DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN
The 2012 Division Chairman are:
- 100/200T: Tim Ratcliffe
- 200C/300/900: Marty Lovelace
- D400 Mark Grinnell
- 500: Justin Mabry
- 600/650: Fred Townes
- 800: Kevin Robertson
The Department Chairs are:
- 100/200T: To be appointed
- 200C/300/900: To be appointed
- 400: David Edgell
- 500: Cliff Carlton
- 600/650: James Clark
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Steelworker News
October 6th
The United Steelworkers (USW) extends its congratulations to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia, and to Leymah Gbowee, the organizer of Liberia's Women for Peace movement, on being awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
President Sirleaf has s…
October 5th
Anchor Brian Williams of NBC’s Nightly News broadcast covers the massive protest on Wall Street known as OccupyWall Street. Comments are aired from United Steelworkers International President Leo Gerard. The movement encompasses many things which in…
October 4th
The ongoing Wall Street occupation -a movement spreading across the United States - was the topic when progressive host and NY Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann recently interviewed United Steelworker (USW) President Leo W. Gerard.
Gerard stood up fo…
October 4th
Reject Free Trade Deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama
More than 30 USW activists yesterday joined President Leo W. Gerard in calling on lawmakers to vote for legislation targeting China's currency instead of passing free-trade agreements. The dele…
October 3rd
Last night, Ed Schultz from MSBC’s "The Ed Show" interviewed United Steelworkers President Leo W. Gerard and they discussed the Wall Street protests that are spreading across the nation.
When asked by Schultz what he thought of the protests and arre…
Contact Us
- 116 West Riverside Drive Salem Virginia 24153
- 540-375-9400 (Office)
- 540-375-0654 (Fax)
- uswa1023@aol.com