Conn Hallinan
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United, weve got what it takes to win
April 19, 2002“As long as we keep taking what they are dishing out,” United Steelworkers of America President Leo Gerard told a meeting on national health care, “they’ll keep dishing it out !” The men and women in...
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USWA calls for national health care
April 19, 2002PITTSBURGH – With the industrial heartland in a state of collapse, 33 steel companies are in bankruptcy, steelworkers are joining thousands of doctors, nurses, health care workers and grassroots organizations to push universal health care from...
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Steelworkers to Congress: protect health care
March 22, 2002PITTSBURGH – Over 85,000 retired LTV steelworkers and their families are facing the unthinkable: living without their earned and union-negotiated health care coverage. Despite the fact the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) has lobbied since 1997...
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Retirees fight for health care
March 8, 2002PITTSBURGH – The ink was hardly dry on President Bush’s executive order imposing a 30 percent tariff on imported steel for three years, when the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) announce dit was launching a...
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Steelworkers fight for their lives
March 1, 2002PITTSBURGH – There is cold rolled anger in the heartland; there is blast furnance fury on the East Coast. In the last two weeks, workers, their families, clergy, school board members and elected officials have jammed...
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Support grows for steel production and health care
February 8, 2002If there are any dinosaurs as the U.S. economy limps into the 21st century, it is its structure, the manufacturing foundation of the U.S. economy.
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Steelworkers in life and death struggle
December 7, 2001YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Thousands of steelworkers poured into the street in front of the Federal Court House here Dec. 4.
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Steelworkers face unprecedented crisis
November 29, 2001PITTSBURGH – Members of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) began pouring the World Trade Center steel in 1966. Union construction workers finished the job in 1970.
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