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.
Constitutional Officer Results for the 2012 Election are:
- President
- Steve Jones...................378
- David Parr......................16
- Vice-President
- Jim Coughlin ………….. 283
- Davis Murphy ………… 111
- Recording Secretary
- Eric Angel ……………….251
- Phil Dunlap ……………. 13
- Financial Secretary
- Brian Roberts ……….......33
- Treasurer
- David Wiley …………….199
- Marty Lovelace ………. 19
- Guide
- Mark Grinnell ………….200
- Cliff Carlton ……………. 18
- Guard (2)
- Kevin Robertson ……….294
- Barry Sloan ……………268
- Tim Ratcliffe …………….. 148
- Trustee (3)
- Tony Miles …………………238
- John Spickard……………..225
- David Edgell (Appointed by Executive Board 5/10/2012)
- Union Standards Representative (Time Study)
- Brooke Manier ……………321
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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