by Leo Gerard | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
The senator’s question was simple and straightforward: What would you have done? Judge Neil Gorsuch wouldn’t answer. He couldn’t say whether, on orders from an employer, he’d have driven a tractor trailer with locked brakes, endangering the lives of other motorists,...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog
After the president issued a budget to slash and burn environmental, labor and educational programs, the guy responsible for the thing, Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, contended those financial massacres are the heart’s desire of the...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
This month is the one-year anniversary of Alcoa closing the largest aluminum smelter in the United States – the Warrick in Indiana. More than 325 workers lost their family-supporting jobs, including Brandon Marshall, who, like most aluminum workers, was a member of my...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump met with a bunch of CEOs at the White House last week, prompting the same old, tired and untrue round of assertions that America lost millions of manufacturing jobs because of automation, regulation, illegal immigration and lack of education....
by Leo Gerard | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
Whirlpool, the big appliance manufacturer, stressed in recent years its preference to make it in America. In 2013, it actually moved dishwasher manufacturing jobs back to the United States from Mexico. The next year, it announced a $40 million investment in its...
