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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Subsidized Foreign Steel is Ruining the U.S. Industry
Congress must enforce trade law to save American steel.
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How We Can Save American Democracy
Amending the Constitution may sound audacious, but it's not impossible.
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Message to ‘Moral Mondays’ Protesters: Be Silent—Or Else
North Carolina residents are being denied First Amendment rights.
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Just How Big Are CEOs’ Packages?
For the first time, corporations must calculate the difference between CEO pay and median worker pay.
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A Bipartisan Alliance That’s True As Steel
Dumped steel from abroad threatens thousands of American jobs.
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GOP Takes Aim at Obamacare Once Again
Republicans have distorted facts to fuel their assault on a favorite target.
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What the GOP and Donald Sterling Have in Common
Republicans treat low-wage workers like three-fifths people.
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Dying for the Job
When employers put efficiency and profit over safety, it's their workers who suffer.
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Why the GOP Really Fears Minimum-Wage Hikes
It comes down to a deep disrespect for the workers who make the country run.
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Republicans Root for the Villain
Paul Ryan's new budget steals from the poor and gives to the rich.
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The McCutcheon Ruling Is Citizens United 2.0
The Supreme Court's decision to remove caps on personal political campaign contributions will tighten the 1% stranglehold on American politics.
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Our Plutocracy Problem
When the 1% and politicians join forces, democracy loses.
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Expand Overtime Pay? GOP Says No
Republicans apparently don't believe that Americans who work longer hours should get paid more.
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Is Obama’s Budget Really ‘Dead on Arrival’?
Republicans like Darrell Issa don't want to engage in debate, they want to stifle it.
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The GOP’s Attack on Basic Rights Continues
Over the last several weeks, Republicans have proposed—and sometimes passed—legislation limiting the civil liberties of some citizens.
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The Billionaires’ Scheme to Destroy Democracy
The 1% are advocating a campaign for a one-dollar-one-vote plutocracy.
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The GOP’s Fight Against Medicaid
4.4 million more Americans than last year have health insurance—no thanks to Republicans.
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When the Boss Wants a Union, But the GOP Says ‘No’
Volkswagen is willing to let employees at its Tennessee plant unionize, but Republicans are stiff in their opposition.
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Northwestern Football Team Makes a Play To Change The Rules
With a historic union bid, players are confronting decades of exploitation.
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The Gap Between Rich and Poor, Accidentally Explained by Bob McDonnell
The scandal shows inequality is not just a slip of some invisible hand of the market.
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Corporate America Poisons West Virginia
How right-wing deregulation led to toxic water for 300,000 people.
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NAFTA’s Trail of Destruction
Twenty years after NAFTA, income inequality and the trade deficit have skyrocketed.
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Republicans Offer Up a Raw Deal for Christmas
The GOP wants to give corporations bonuses and put the unemployed out in the cold.
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The Pledge of Corporate Allegiance?
Leaks reveal that corporate front group ALEC may ask for loyalty oaths from legislators.
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American Workers: From Bounty to Bleakness
This Thanksgiving, many American workers won't share in the bounty they helped create.
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Actually, Republicans Don’t Believe in Corporate Freedom
The GOP has jumped in to stop companies from letting their workers unionize.
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Republicans Suddenly Love Obamacare
In a change of heart, Republicans are now outraged over the slow progress of the Affordable Care Act.
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It’s Not Safe Out There
Weak laws and an understaffed OSHA leave workers vulnerable and voiceless
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Ending Million-Dollar Pay Packages, Papal-Style
Let the Pope's suspension of a bishop for spending millions on lavish renovations be a lesson to America's CEOs.
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Shooting America in the Foot
Republicans wounded the country--and their party--with their failed gambit to defund the Affordable Care Act.
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Why the Tea Party Loves Medicare but Hates Obamacare
How the GOP and the Koch brothers took advantage of the Tea Party's confused populism.
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The Grumpy Obstructionist Party
It's time for Dems to turn the tables.
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Today, Congressional Republicans Violate Their Oath of Office
The House has resorted to hostage-taking, rather than the job it was elected to do.
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The Cult of the Selfish
When did America lose sight of the common good?
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The Three C’s: Capitalism, Cronyism and Corruption
It's a surprise to nobody but himself--Virginia's GOP governor faces scrutiny over the three C's.
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Education: Every American’s Right
Lowering college costs will restore access to the American Dream.
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Young Tea Party ‘Rebels’ Burn Fake ‘Obamacare Cards’
A well-funded Tea Party think tank hopes to convince 3 million young people to forgo subsidized health insurance.
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Supersize Those Wages, McDonald’s
McDonald's meager wages hurt taxpayers as well as workers.
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The GOP’s Summer Break Plans
The Republican guide to secret meetings during Congress's five-week sojourn.
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Who Will Stand Up to Wall Street?
While the House continues kowtowing, a select few in the Senate are working to tame the banks.
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Republicans Love Lucy
Just like Ricky Ricardo, the GOP thinks women are empty-headed twits.
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Dust Off Those Poll Tax Laws, Dixie
The Supreme Court has threatened our most basic right, to the delight of conservatives.
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America Feeds the Rich
If the Farm Bill passes, it will literally take food out of the mouths of babes.
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Bankruptcy Scheme Shafts Coal Miners
Patriot Coal wins in bankruptcy court, reneges on retiree benefits.
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Time for the Democrats to Go Nuclear
Harry Reid has nothing to lose by banning the filibuster of appointments.
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Blood on Gap Jeans
Dozens of companies have signed an agreement to protect Bangladesh factory workers--but The Gap refuses.
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How to Handle the IRS Scandal? Reverse Citizens United
The real moral of the IRS story is that election finance needs serious reform.
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Has the GOP Been Watching Too Much Downton Abbey?
A hereditary aristocracy is not the American way.
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