by Leo Gerard | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog
Photo by Steve Dietz The year 2001, when I became president of the United Steelworkers union and Hillary Clinton took office as a U.S. Senator for New York, was a desperate, terrible time for steelworkers and the steel industry in this country. I turned to her, among...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog
Image by Ryan Merkley on Flickr Republicans have conjured for Americans a monster more frightening than any Hollywood has ever produced for Halloween. It pales “The Shining.” It is a two-headed beast Donald Trump calls...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
“Make me.” That’s how Donald Trump responded during the last debate when Hillary Clinton pointed out that he failed to use American steel to construct the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Trump used Chinese steel. So he created jobs for Chinese workers. Not American...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog
Images by DonkeyHotey on Flickr Warren Buffett threw down the gauntlet to Donald Trump again last week. It happened after Trump lied about Buffett’s federal income tax payments on national TV. During the second presidential debate on Oct. 9, Trump said Buffett “took a...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog
On Sept. 2, a tarp covering part of the Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh caught fire during repair work. The flames enveloped a steel beam that buckled and nearly caused the entire 88-year-old structure to collapse. A town already racked by hard-to-navigate streets...
