Leo Gerard

As Steelworkers President, Leo Gerard (March 19, 1947 – September 21, 2025) headed one of the nation’s most politically active and largest industrial unions, United Steelworkers. Gerard served on the U.S. National Commission on Energy Policy. A co-founder of the BlueGreen Alliance, Gerard served on the boards of the Campaign for America’s Future, the Economic Policy Institute and the Elderly Housing Development & Operations Corp., as well as served as a member of the Labor Advisory Board at Wayne State University.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Leo Gerard

Labor

The price for killing workers must be prison
April 27, 2017 By Leo Gerard
Canadian law holds corporate officials criminally accountable when workers are killed on the job.
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Labor

Steelworkers president to Trump: Stop hurting workers’ morale!
December 16, 2016 By Leo Gerard
When a president-elect tells the country he’s saved 1,100 jobs and it’s really only 800, he is hurting real human beings.
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Labor

Donald Trump and his “made in America” fraud
October 13, 2016 By Leo Gerard
Trump has done nothing in his career to indicate he would create U.S. jobs in the steel manufacturing industry.
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Opinion

Trump spins election fraud fantasy while Republicans cheat on voter rights
September 1, 2016 By Leo Gerard
Trump claims he'll lose the election only if Democrats cheat at the polls, but the only ones cheating at elections are Republicans.
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Labor

Challenging the stereotypical “angry white guy” for Trump
August 3, 2016 By Leo Gerard
A huge number of high school-educated white men don't go to Trump rallies: They're angry, all right - angry at being associated with Trump.
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Labor

Billionaire Trump claims steelworker status
July 6, 2016 By Leo Gerard
"Donald Trump stomped into my backyard just days before July 4 and claimed to be a steelworker."
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Opinion

Billionaire Trump fleeces workers, small businesses
June 21, 2016 By Leo Gerard
Using corporate practices favored by Wall Street, Trump made himself billions swindling and bankrupting untold numbers of hourly workers and small businesses.
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U.S.

Senate GOP disses American voters
March 24, 2016 By Leo Gerard
Senate Republicans are flipping off the President of the United States by refusing to conduct a confirmation hearing for his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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