United Steelworkers (USW) is making an effort to unionize miners at Northshore Mining Company.
Steelworker officials are conducting an organizing campaign at Northshore's taconite mine in Babbitt and processing plant in Silver Bay to determine whether a majority of the facility's roughly 480 hourly-paid miners support USW representation.
âWe're just trying to give them a voice,â John Arbogast, USW District 11 staff representative said. âWhat we tell them is once you have a union and a contract, everything like wages and pensions are in a contract and guaranteed.â
USW representation at Northshore Mining Co. would be a major landmark in the union representation of miners in northeastern Minnesota.