Sisters and brothers,

Live streaming video, daily news, photo slideshows, audio reports, updated blogging and a wealth of USW information right at your fingertips. This is what you’ll experience at the newly designed www.usw.org.

The revamped Web site catapults our union into the exciting world of Web 2.0.

The new usw.org gives you all the Steelworker information you’re used to in new ways – and more. There’s a special section just for members where members can update their personal information, stay informed about union issues, get in touch with union leaders and participate in the movement like never before by sharing information, photos, videos and more through social networking sites such as facebook and flickr.

A new multimedia section gives our union a place to showcase videos, photos, POWERcasts and other productions that help tell the story of working families and the issues important to us.

There’s a revamped press center, action center, a brand new blog and so much more.

The new site, designed and developed by Chicago-based Articulated Man (www.articulatedman.com) helps modernize, expedite and improve our communications, giving us another valuable tool for education, mobilization and activism as we take on tough, global fights.

What you see now is just step one in our process to give you the best Web site in organized labor. Stay tuned – and please be patient with us – as we work to perfect the site and redesign all the USW sections and the Canadian site.

You’ll have plenty of opportunity on the new site to give us feedback, so please do so and we’ll try to incorporate your suggestions. For now, enjoy usw.org and check back often for updates, including multimedia coverage from the Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas, June 30-July 3.

Happy surfing!