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.
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A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs
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When Corporations Don’t Take Precautions To Avert Workplace Deaths, the Answer Must Be Prison
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Want to Solve the Steel Crisis? Change the Rules
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Trade Deals Like the TPP Are Murdering American Manufacturing
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Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS Group Now Has the Same Tax Designation as the Red Cross or Humane Society
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Michigan GOP Gov. Rick Snyder Values Big Business More Than Children’s Lives
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A Holiday Recipe for Economic Equality—in Just 7 Simple Steps!
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Blame Anyone but the Corporations: GOP Fear-Mongering Distracts from the TPP
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The TPP Won’t Just Cost Workers Jobs—It Could Cost Them Their Lives, Too
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Unless You’re a Corporation, Nothing Good Will Come of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Rich Guy’s Inequality Fix: Raises for Workers. Just Kidding! It’s ‘Give Free Stuff to Rich Guys’
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How United Airlines’ Rapacious, Scandal-Ridden CEO Screwed Over His Own Company
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The Six-State Steelworker Fight Back Against Corporate Lockouts and Exploitation
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China’s Currency Devaluation Protected Its Workers—Something the U.S. Doesn’t Bother With
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Indiana University Health Nurse Who Wanted to Unionize Fired—Then Un-Fired
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Donald Trump and the GOP Put Individual Wealth Over Strong Communities
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Jeb Bush Wants to Whip Workers Into Shape, But Not Corporations and the Idle Rich
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CEOs Should Stop Complaining: Obama’s New Overtime Rule Is Long Overdue
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Why Republicans Should End Their Losing Battle Against Obamacare
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America Needs a New Vision for Trade—Not More Fast-Track Deals Benefitting the Rich
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New NY Times Poll Finds Americans Are Pretty Pessimistic About Beating Big Money in Politics
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Politicians Keep Promising Free Trade Agreements Can Protect Workers. We Should Stop Believing Them.
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Forced Trade and the Damaging Effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Bill de Blasio Proposes a National Progressive Agenda to Rewrite the Rules of American Inequality
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America’s Abusive Relationship with Free Trade-Obsessed Politicians
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On Workers Memorial Day, Remembering the Words of Dead Workers
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The Undemocratic Job-Killing Trade Scheme That Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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The Courage of Low-Wage Workers On Strike
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Broad Support for LGBT Rights Somehow Caught Republican Governors By Surprise
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Foreign Trade Rules Are Killing Jobs and Communities. They Need Fixing Now.
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The GOP’s Latest Big Squeeze on American Workers
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When These GOP Governors Run for President, Remember Their Contempt for Workers
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Striking Oil Workers Are Fighting for Safe Communities, Not Just Better Conditions for Themselves
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Oil Striker: “None of us wants to be the next person to lose his life for no good reason”
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Whether in Greece or the U.S., It’s Clear: Austerity Doesn’t Work
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Hey Sen. McConnell: Don’t Fast Track the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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We Don’t Just Need ‘More Jobs’—We Need Higher Wages
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The GOP Is Trying To Take Health Care Away from Millions of Americans
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‘Right to Work’ Benefits CEOs, Not Workers
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American Society’s Real Moochers: CEOs
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Wall Street and Major Retailers Agree That Inequality is Killing Us. Why Don’t Republicans?
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Happy Halloween from the GOP
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Precarious Academic Workers Are Pushing Back Against the Tenuous Track
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Senate Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ending One Percenters’ Control of Elections
The GOP says yet again that control of our political system by the ultra-rich is just fine, thank you.
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Why Labor Matters in the Fight for Racial Justice
Black workers' struggles in the labor movement have won important gains—including transformation of unions themselves.
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It’s Time To Send the GOP a Message
Republicans have proved once again that they're out of touch with what Americans want.
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No Independence for Workers This Fourth of July
Liberty and justice for all? Not quite.
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