EVENTS

Youngstown Mayday Festival

Saturday, May 2nd @ 4pm
Calvin Center for the Arts
755 Mahoning Ave, Youngstown

Youngstown May Day Festival 2026 - Mike Stout Promo

Women of Steel Tribute

Saturday, May 8th @ 6pm
Pump House
880 E Waterfront Drive, Munhall, PA 15120

Women of Steel digital flyer Digital

VIDEOS

Women of Steel

This music video, “Women of Steel” composed and performed by Mike Stout, honors the United Steelworkers’ Women of Steel. When women started working in the steel mills and related industries in the 1970s and 1980s, they faced discrimination, prejudice, harassment and often impossible odds. They joined the steelworkers union and fought for equal pay and rights, and equal treatment on the job. They became a powerful force demanding pregnancy benefits, their own locker rooms and bathrooms, and forged a solidarity amongst themselves paving the way for future steelworkers. They are amongst the true pioneers of the union movement in the USA. Their story needs to reach millions.

In The News

Feeling abandoned, community contaminated by a toxic train decides,
‘We only have ourselves’

By Steve Mellon
June 29, 2025
"Homestead Steel Mill - The Final Ten Years" book cover

Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years

A Book by Mike Stout

Profusely illustrated with dozens of photographs, Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years is labor history at its best, providing a vivid account of how ordinary workers can radicalize their unions. 

Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years is a new book written by Mike Stout, chronicling his experience in the takeover and restructuring of the union’s grievance procedure at Homestead by regular workers and put at the service of its thousands of members.