By Cesar Villarruel Outer Guard This has been a challenging month, regarding contracting out. The Company continues to eliminate overtime through improper methods that do not comply with our BLA. We currently have an expedited arbitration addressing how the Company is applying its justifications for contractor usage while using “surge” as an exception. Another major issue is that the Company is creating its own “surge” and “emergency” situations by limiting bargaining unit em

USW Local 1010 continues to play a critical role in corporate training initiatives, safety programs, and the establishment of workplace standards. Our involvement is at the forefront of achieving the shared goal of zero accidents and maintaining a healthy, safe work environment for all members. It’s important to recognize that meaningful corporate initiatives are only successful when they are done jointly with the USW. Our union’s involvement ensures that training programs an

First, I would like to say that this past year was a very challenging one. With the Riverdale situation and the layoffs, our local was met with a lot of obstacles. Getting our members back to work was not easy. Of course, we all wish everyone could have returned right away, but through the persistence of our Union and the teamwork we displayed, we were able to bring back as many members as possible. It now looks like within the next month everyone will be back to work. Not ju

My name is Robert “Bobby” Hayes, I am the Local Unit President of 1010-28, at Arcelor Mittal Research, here in East Chicago. I’ve been with Arcelor Mittal since 2006. I am also the Veterans Committee Chairman for Local 1010, as we are just getting the Veterans program started. We just dedicated our Wall with great success on Veterans Day. If any of our Veterans have any suggestions or submissions for Events to raise money for Veterans programs, please let me or Scott Shultz k

This past year, Central Training supported a high volume of MTM/MTE development across all departments throughout the mill. In Crane Training alone, 175 members were trained, while approximately 285 members completed Mobile Equipment training. In Weld Training we continued to show strong results, with over 22,000 hours of weld training completed in 2025. In addition, we successfully caught up on required 70E training, qualifying over 240 MTEs. These numbers continue to gro

Safety must always remain our top priority. On that front, we had a record year, and that is something every member should take pride in. That success did not happen by accident. Our Local 1010 safety team, which includes the Union Hall, Safety Advocates, Area Safety Committees, Department Safety Committees, and our Green Guardians, all deserve a well-earned pat on the back. Safety is an unmeasured metric, it does not show up on a spreadsheet or a production report, but it