Leo Gerard

As Steelworkers President, Leo Gerard headed one of the nation’s most politically active and largest industrial unions, United Steelworkers. Gerard serves on the U.S. National Commission on Energy Policy. A co-founder of the BlueGreen Alliance, Gerard serves on the boards of the Campaign for America’s Future, the Economic Policy Institute and the Elderly Housing Development & Operations Corp., as well as serving as a member of the Labor Advisory Board at Wayne State University.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Leo Gerard

Labor

On Workers Memorial Day: The words of the dead
April 28, 2015 By Leo Gerard
USW members who work for Marathon have gone without pay for nearly three months because they know what's at stake: Their lives.
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U.S.

So-called “balanced budget” shows the GOP has money to kill
March 24, 2015 By Leo Gerard
The opposite of win-win, the Republican budgets are kill-kill.
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Labor

The GOP wants pay cuts for hard workers
March 19, 2015 By Leo Gerard
Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation last week to lower the wages of Wisconsin's middle class workers.
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Labor

The GOP’s blind hate of union members
March 5, 2015 By Leo Gerard
To Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, America's labor union members are the same as murderous, beheading, caged-prisoner-immolating ISIS terrorists.
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Environment

Like a bad neighbor, Chevron is there
February 19, 2015 By Leo Gerard
Residents, environmentalists and USW members work together to protect the safety and health of refinery workers and citizens living near the Richmond refinery.
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U.S.

GOP on wrong side of history on immigration
December 1, 2014 By Leo Gerard
In the year and a half since the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill, House leaders refused to permit a vote on it.
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U.S.

GOP to America: “Be very, very afraid this Halloween!”
October 16, 2014 By Leo Gerard
Republicans have adopted a Halloween-themed campaign strategy that they hope will incite voters to run screaming from Democrats.
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Labor

A GOP fraud – defrauding voters
September 25, 2014 By Leo Gerard
The GOP is working desperately to deny the right to vote to citizens it doesn't like. You know, poor people, black people, Hispanic people, old people, females.
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