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- 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.
News Articles »
- March 09, 2012 | Leslie Marshall Show 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 | USW 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.
Releases / Advisories »
- April 25, 2012 | USW ‘Boots-on-the-Ground' Campaign Credited for Critz Win in Pa. Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW), issued a statement that cited a big "unified labor movement, boots-on-the-ground' push by union members as behind Pennsylvania's CD-12 Democratic primary win by Congressman Mark Critz following the 10:15 pm concession by U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire. Click here for more.
- March 06, 2012 | USW Steelworkers Endorse Barack Obama for Re-election as President The United Steelworkers (USW) International Executive Board today voted unanimously to support President Barack Obama for re-election in November. “This is the right time to do the right thing for a man who has proved he is right for the job,” said USW International President Leo W. Gerard.
- March 06, 2012 | USW USW Credits Bi-Partisan Congressional Action Ensuring U.S. Can Protect Jobs Against Chinese Subsidized Imports The United Steelworkers (USW) today credited Congress for rising above partisanship and bickering to ensure that America’s trade laws can be used to respond to China’s rampant subsidization of its producers when the practice injures U.S. workers and industry.
