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Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Leo Gerard is international president of the United Steelworkers Union, part of the AFL-CIO. The son of a union miner; Gerard started working at a nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ontario, at age 18, and rose through the union’s ranks to be appointed the seventh international president Feb. 28, 2001. For more information about Gerard, visit usw.org.
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A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs
United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on how tariffs could benefit American workers. MORE
Views · April 10, 2018
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A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs
A great wailing and gnashing of teeth arose across the land after the Trump administration announced its plan to place tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum. House Speaker... MORE
Working · April 2, 2018
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When Corporations Don’t Take Precautions To Avert Workplace Deaths, the Answer Must Be Prison
This article was first posted by Alternet. Every 12 days, a member of my union, the United Steelworkers (USW), or one of their non-union co-workers, is killed on the job. Every 12 days. And it... MORE
Working · April 26, 2017
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Want to Solve the Steel Crisis? Change the Rules
This article was first posted at Alternet. China is gorging itself on steelmaking. It is forging so much steel that the entire world doesn’t need that much steel. Companies in the... MORE
Working · September 7, 2016
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Trade Deals Like the TPP Are Murdering American Manufacturing
In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities... MORE
Working · February 24, 2016
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Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS Group Now Has the Same Tax Designation as the Red Cross or Humane Society
One percenters have it all, extra houses, extra cars, even an exclusive legal defense if they kill, “affluenza,” to keep them out of jail. But until last week, they felt unfairly... MORE
Working · February 17, 2016
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Michigan GOP Gov. Rick Snyder Values Big Business More Than Children’s Lives
The people of Michigan hired themselves a GOP businessman to be governor in 2011. And what they got was children poisoned by public water in Flint. That is, what they got was a government... MORE
Working · January 26, 2016
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A Holiday Recipe for Economic Equality—in Just 7 Simple Steps!
The spirit of the season is generosity. Eight toys for Hanukkah. A partridge in a pear tree and 11 other quirky presents. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday. It’s the thought that... MORE
Working · December 24, 2015
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Blame Anyone but the Corporations: GOP Fear-Mongering Distracts from the TPP
This post first appeared on USW.org. Middle America is smoldering. For too long, average citizens worked harder and produced more, yet corporations cut pay and benefits, off-shored community-sustaining factories, killed family-supporting... MORE
Working · December 16, 2015
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The TPP Won’t Just Cost Workers Jobs—It Could Cost Them Their Lives, Too
This post first appeared on USW.org. Americans who once earned family-supporting wages working in factories, foundries and mills across this country began destroying themselves at a shocking rate five years after implementation... MORE
Working · November 10, 2015