Job security is an important benefit of joining a union. We can help protect workers from arbitrary firings or layoffs by establishing clear procedures for discipline and termination. In cases where layoffs are necessary, ICWUC can negotiate for things like severance pay or retraining programs to help affected employees transition to new jobs. By ensuring that workers are fairly compensated for their labor, we help...

Congratulations to Local 268U negotiations team for staying strong and getting a 16% raise increase over 3 years. Melissa Dutton, James Hanson, Colleen Huber, Dave Molumby, Bette Mense, Tracie Hepfler, Deb Goldsmith. Thank you for all that you do!  

On August 27, over 140 workers at two INEOS Pigments plants in Ashtabula, Ohio, joined the ICWUC/UFCW and International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Then Organizer Lance Heasley filed a RC Petition with the NLRB on December 23, for all Maintenance, Shipping/Receiving, Production, and Lab employees at the Sun Chemical Kankakee, IL location. Sun Chemical tried every tactic in the book (resulting in us filing 2 separate petitions and have 2 separate elections) to delay things but the workers at Sun Chemical stayed strong and on August 9, they...

I want to share something with the membership of the entire International Chemical Workers Union Council Of The United Food And Commercial Workers Union and my own Local 121C thereof. Most of you do not know me. Most of the members of my own Local 121C do not know me. But I very much want you all to hear me and acknowledge something to yourselves....

Health and safety are not always at the top of a Local Union’s priority list. Still, ICWU Local 45C’s safety committee is making safety a priority, especially during their Safe and Sound Week festivities. During a week in October, Westlake Chemical and Local 45C acknowledged that safety is essential and accepted the mutual responsibility to work safely and follow the rules and standards that keep...

  We are proud to provide our members with a new series of benefits from our friends in the Union Labor Life Insurance Company (ULLICO). ULLICO can provide our members with many types of insurance including Post-retiree medical (if your company does not provide it), Medicare supplemental coverage, Vision, Dental, and more. This is a great benefit that the ICWUC (members only) family can enjoy....

When asked about an industrial tragedy and specifically one that proved to progress health and safety for the better, first thoughts always turn to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Where mostly immigrant women and children were imprisoned to keep them on the job working six days a week in deplorable conditions, it was the habit of factory owners and supervisors at that time...