(Reuters) – The United Steelworkers executive board on Tuesday appointed David McCall to lead the 850,000-member union, the largest in North America, a spokesperson said in a statement.
He will fill the remaining term of Tom Conway, who died this week after an illness. The union represents workers in steel, mining, public health, education and oil industries in the United States and Canada.
McCall was named vice president for administration in 2019, the same year that Conway became the union’s international president. Both men began their careers at Bethlehem Steel’s Burns Harbor, Indiana mill.
McCall has been leading the USW’s master contract negotiations with Cleveland-Cliffs, ATI, Goodyear and several other industry-wide bargaining committees.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba)
