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Memorial Day massacre commemoration inspires Midwest steelworkers

May 18, 2015 By Patrick J. Foote

Steelworkers and the community gathered to remember the lives lost and lessons learned in the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre.

Trumka: Workers “confused, angry, frustrated, scared”

August 20, 2014 By PAI

But the mass movement of low-wage workers, fighting for better wages and working conditions and the right to organize, is helping show the way out of the morass.

USW rolls out platform, denounces greedy forces out to destroy workers

August 15, 2014 By PAI

Delegates adopted a multi-point action platform for coming years to battle what President Gerard called "shrewd, greedy and powerful" forces out to destroy workers.

Steelworker runs for Ohio council seat

August 30, 2013 By Bruce Bostick

BROOKLYN, Ohio - When Republicans in the Ohio legislature passed Senate Bill 5, designed to wipe out public workers' pensions, in 2011, it was personal for young Marc Bukszar.

Egyptian unions in throes of democracy fight

August 16, 2013 By PAI

The Egyptian army arrested and temporarily detained two Egyptian steel union leaders in Suez, Egypt, two days before its violent crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, seven Egyptian unions and a human rights...