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		<title>Middle class needs right to bargain, secure contracts &#8212; like CEOs have</title>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President 
Kosher abuse
In May, when immigration officials raided the kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa and hauled out 389 undocumented workers, the news was all about immigration violations, but now the focus is on the employer, Agriprocessors Inc.
That’s because it turns out that while purportedly giving ritual consideration to the animals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China trade promises all snake oil</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/08/02/china-trade-promises-all-snake-oil-%e2%80%93-fair-trade-crucial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President 
 
Lies, traderous lies and statistics
In the free for all Twenty-First Century, it all sounds terrific – free markets, free trade and free commerce. But really, it’s lies, traderous lies and statistics.
The d in trader is deliberate. This is about the sleight of hand billed as free trade.
We’re constantly told it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NLC investigation reveals imported Ernie toy toxic to workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/26/nlc-investigation-reveals-imported-ernie-toy-toxic-to-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President

Toxic Toys
Over the past year, American parents rebuffed foreign-made toys when they contained leaded paint, poisonous cadmium beads or the “date rape” drug.
These toxic toys created a scandal as it became clear that the Bush administration’s deliberately stripped down Consumer Product Safety Commission was not protecting American children and families from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deregulation defrauded Americans of security and freedom</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/18/deregulation-defrauded-americans-of-security-and-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President
21st century slavery
The Government Accountability Office reported to Congress this week that, under the Bush administration, the Labor Department determined that what amounted to a 21st century case of slavery was just fine with the U.S. government.
A Labor Department investigator told the slave, a night attendant at an assisted living facility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulation essential to stop toxic trade</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/11/regulation-essential-to-stop-toxic-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President 
Toxic Trader invades DC
With a motorcycle police escort, the United Steelworkers’ “Toxic Trader” puppet lurched down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House, on his way to the Grand Hyatt Hotel on H Street in Washington, D.C. on July 9.
That is where the Bush administration-backed Import Safety Summit was being conducted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain for free trade, &#8216;no ifs, ands or buts about it&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/10/mccain-for-free-trade-no-ifs-ands-or-buts-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain continues his rousing campaign tour of the swing states of NAFTA this week. He will celebrate July 3rd in Mexico City after a jaunt through Colombia to pledge support for the pending free trade accord with that center of cocaine trade. He surely will increase his margin over Barack Obama among business elites in Mexico and Canada. Obama will travel to Zanesville, Ohio, once more exposing himself to McCain's jibes about embracing "protectionist" policies.]]></description>
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		<title>Steelworkers &#8220;Begin Again&#8221; for a Better America with Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/03/steelworkers-begin-again-for-a-better-america-with-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President
Here everybody has a neighbor
Everybody has a friend
Everybody has a reason to begin again
 Bruce Springsteen – Long Walk Home
Sen. Barack Obama yesterday asked 4,500 delegates and observers at the convention of the United Steelworkers in Las Vegas to help him give America a chance to begin again. The group responded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers Uniting Means Global Solidarity</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/02/workers-uniting-means-global-solidarity/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[



By Leo W. Gerard
International President
Staking everything
Today, in Las Vegas, a town where jackpots are sought and fortunes are lost,   Derek Simpson, general secretary of the UK-based international union, Unite the Union (Amicus Section) and I together staked everything on a worthy cause &#8212; working men and women world wide.
We signed an agreement at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steelworkers Vote to Build Formidable Strike and Defense Fund</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/01/steelworkers-vote-to-build-formidable-strike-and-defense-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President 
Nobody’s second class citizens
In Las Vegas, a town infamous for carelessly bankrupting the naïve, members of the United Steelworkers voted Tuesday to pay a little more forward out of each paycheck to ensure they won’t be duped, overpowered or taken for anybody’s second class citizens.
All of the additional pennies-per-hour steelworkers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battling the New Age Robber Barons</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/06/30/battling-the-new-age-robber-barons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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By Leo W. Gerard
International President
Rich get richer
After a year in which the majority of Americans suffered the effects of recession, including tens of thousands who lost jobs because of rising unemployment, hundreds of thousands who lost homes in the subprime mortgage crisis and millions who lost their shirts because of unrelenting gas price hikes, Merrill [...]]]></description>
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