Political News
- March 09, 2012 USW President: "Don't Get Economic Amnesia" Leslie Marshall discusses with United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard the accomplishments of President Obama in the past four years and how the country is benefiting from his leadership.
- March 05, 2012 GOP War on Voting Targets Swing States On March 7, 1963, civil rights activists were brutally beaten by police in Selma, Alabama, during the infamous "Bloody Sunday" march, for advocating for the right to vote. This week, forty-seven years later, today's civil rights leaders retraced the march from Selma to Montgomery, protesting what NAACP President Ben Jealous calls "the greatest attack on voting rights since segregation."
- November 09, 2011 Reps. Doggett and Levin Introduce the ''Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension and Tax Relief Act" Democrat Representatives Sander Levin (D-MI) and Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) introduce legislation would prevent over 6 million jobless Americans from losing their unemployment benefits next year by continuing the current Federal unemployment insurance programs through 2012.
- October 31, 2011 USW Demands Fair Wages at Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia Steelworkers demanding fair wages for thousands of workers on strike at a Freeport-McMoRan mine in Indonesia held a demonstration at the company’s headquarters in Phoenix.
- October 15, 2011 New Video: USW Joins Occupy Pittsburgh USW International President, Leo W. Gerard, joined thousands of Pittsburghers in Day 1 of the Occupy Pittsburgh movement.
- July 06, 2011 USW Strongly Welcomes WTO Decision The United Steelworkers (USW) lauded today’s decision at the World Trade Organization that found that China illegally constrained the export of raw materials, thereby advantaging Chinese producers and increasing costs for U.S. manufacturers.
- April 25, 2011 NEW VIDEO: USW Members "Made In America" All-Stars USW members make the energy-efficient light bulbs featured in this national news report. Check it out, buy the bulbs and pass it on!
- April 20, 2011 The Leslie Marshall Show - The King (or Dictator) of Michigan? In this episode, Leslie Marshall talks with Fred Redmond, International Vice President of Human Affairs for the United Steelworkers (USW). Redmond talked about how Governor Snyder’s bill to impose “financial martial law” on the people of Michigan is a threat to democracy and the electoral process.
- April 14, 2011 NEW VIDEO: USW Fighting Back Across the Nation Click here to check out this new video highlighting USW activism nationwide as we fight back corporate-led attacks. Then pass it on.
- December 10, 2010 Conway: Our Nation Needs a Manufacturing Policy USW International Vice President Tom Conway appeared on the Leslie Marshall Radio Show to talk about he importance of manufacturing to the nation.
