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	<title>USW Blog &#187; General Motors</title>
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		<title>GM Has No Business Using Our Money on Campaign Contributions</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/03/gm-has-no-business-using-our-money-on-campaign-contributions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley General Motors has given $90,500 to candidates in the current election cycle, according to the Federal Election Commission. Hmm? Last time I looked, you and I and every other U.S. taxpayer owned a majority of GM. That means some of the money we&#8217;re earning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Reason to Break up Big Wall Street Banks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/04/another-reason-to-break-up-big-wall-street-banks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author Ever wonder how Wall Street bankers manage to make tens &#8212; and sometimes hundreds &#8212; of millions of dollars? How do people who really don&#8217;t produce anything manage to siphon such gigantic sums from the pockets of the people who produce goods and services &#8212; who actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAW: U.S. Cars on the Road to Success</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/31/uaw-u-s-cars-on-the-road-to-success/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/31/uaw-u-s-cars-on-the-road-to-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tula Connell AFL-CIO Managing Editor Higher profits and new fuel-efficient models have put American-made cars back on the road again—with the help of taxpayers and the workers who have worked closely with the Big Three automakers to ensure their success. In July, Ford posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit of $2.6 billion—some $1 billion more than analysts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Manufacturing Business Expert Richard McCormack</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Richard McCormack     Q&#38;A       Leo W. Gerard: Richard, when you appeared recently at Youngstown State University as a guest of the Center for Working-Class Lecture Series, you talked about how essential manufacturing is to the U.S. economy and how politicians seem clueless about that. In fact, you said, “Politicians don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift America Needs Most: Manufacturing</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/22/the-gift-america-needs-most-manufacturing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/22/the-gift-america-needs-most-manufacturing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      By Leo W. Gerard USW International President  In Columbus Ohio, a 5-year-old girl jumped onto Santa’s lap last month and asked if he could give her dad a job as an elf. Mike Smith, who works the Santa station at the Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, asked why, the Wall Street Journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiping Blood Off White Buck Shoes</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/23/wiping-blood-off-white-buck-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard USW International President In New York, the oldest and snobbiest financial and advising ventures are called “white shoe” firms. This, they say, arose from the days when their hoity-toity employees wore white bucks to work.  These days, white shoe firms bear names notorious outside New York, like Goldman Sachs and Morgan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Peter Navarro: Macroeconomic Expert and Best-Selling Author on China</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/04/qa-with-peter-navarro-macroeconomic-expert-and-best-selling-author-on-china/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/04/qa-with-peter-navarro-macroeconomic-expert-and-best-selling-author-on-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Peter Navarro and Leo Gerard   Leo W. Gerard: Your chapter in the new book, &#8220;Benchmarking the Advantages Foreign Nationals Provide their Manufacturers,&#8221; describes in devastating detail how China in particular, but also other major U.S. trading partners, violate international rules. The abuses you document make clear that it&#8217;s impossible for American manufactures to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RNC&#8217;s Michael Steele Becomes Union Man</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/21/rncs-michael-steele-becomes-union-man/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/21/rncs-michael-steele-becomes-union-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele appears to be suffering philosophical identity confusion, you know, like some people experience sexual identity confusion. He&#8217;s got an organization named United STEELE Workers Union, white hardhat emblem and all, collecting members for him on Facebook. It had 255 worldwide as of June 19. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Task Force Outsources Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/15/auto-task-force-outsources-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roger Bybee Milwaukee Freelance Writer As rescue attempts go, the Obama administration and its Auto Task Force are pursuing a peculiar course: They seem intent on keeping General Motors and Chrysler afloat as corporate entities by tossing more U.S. workers overboard. Even as unemployment rates soar in longtime GM-centered communities hit by shutdowns, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/05/gm-bankruptcy-hurts-people-of-color-hardest-workers-desperately-need-efca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Seth Freed Wessler Researcher at the Applied Research Center When General Motors filed for bankruptcy on Monday, it left behind a long trail of grievers&#8211; twenty-one thousand of them. The loss of these good, union jobs and the many more that will be shed when related businesses close are devastating families and communities. For [...]]]></description>
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