by Leo Gerard | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump had Harley-Davidson executives and employees over to lunch at the White House last week and reiterated his promise to end wrong-headed trade policies that enable foreign countries to eat American workers’ lunch. Trump reassured the Harley...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
During this very month last year, aluminum smelters across the United States were closing, one after another. It was as if they produced something useless, not a commodity crucial to everything from beverage cans to fighter jets. In January of 2016, Alcoa closed its...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog
Virtually every time President-elect Donald Trump performs in cities across America on his thank you tour, he mentions, to grand applause, his preference for Made in America. He describes his plan to create jobs with a federal infrastructure spending project – that is...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
All Chuck Jones was trying to say is that Presidential-elect exaggeration is a killer when it involves jobs. It’s one thing for a candidate to inflate stuff like personal wealth. But when a President-elect tells the country...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
USW members at a 2016 anti-TPP rally in Washington, D.C. organized by the USW Rapid Response Department. Photo credit: Steve Dietz of Sharper Image Studios The defeat of the TPP is a tale of ants slaying a dragon. It seemed a fearsome task, challenging the powerful...
