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		<title>A Crucial  Senate Race and Its Impact on Jobs and the Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/30/a-crucial-senate-race-and-its-impact-on-jobs-and-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the campaigning for the 2012 election nears, America is still in deep trouble in unemployment and ever-increasing job-killing import competition. We lost 55,000 manufacturing facilities in the last decade, and those losses continue at about 1,000 per month along with many more good jobs. Any changes in trade policy to correct this grievous situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Brown’s “Canary in a Bird Cage” on Morning Joe</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/29/senator-brown%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ccanary-in-a-bird-cage%e2%80%9d-on-morning-joe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe where he talked about a bill he is introducing next week to deal with China currency. Brown states, “We continue to lose ground to China because they don&#8217;t play fair.” He also mentions the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Wield the Foreign Policy Stick</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/20/time-to-wield-the-foreign-policy-stick/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/20/time-to-wield-the-foreign-policy-stick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China apologizes for violating international trade regulations, then continues to violate them. America beseeches China to stop manipulating its currency, then China allows the value to increase a completely insignificant amount. America simply accepts the abuse. In his meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao this week, President Obama must announce that America is done with soft talk. Obama needs to tell Hu that America has heard enough promises; the United States is bucking up and pulling out that big stick that Teddy Roosevelt carried in foreign policy negotiations.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Green, White and Blue? American Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/10/what%e2%80%99s-green-white-and-blue-american-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/10/what%e2%80%99s-green-white-and-blue-american-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard USW International President Red, as in furiously red, defined the day last fall when a consortium of companies announced it wanted $450 million in U.S. stimulus money to build a wind farm in Texas, creating 2,000 jobs in China and 300 in America. Now, nine months later, things have cooled down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want Jobs? Stop China&#8217;s Currency Manipulation</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/14/want-jobs-stop-china%e2%80%99s-currency-manipulation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/14/want-jobs-stop-china%e2%80%99s-currency-manipulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Scott Paul Executive Director of Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM)     The latest U.S. trade figures came out on Tuesday morning and the news is ugly.  Our growing trade deficit will threaten job creation in any economic recovery that begins to take shape.  Not only did the monthly U.S. trade deficit increase, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a President with the Guts to Enforce Trade Laws</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/13/finally-a-president-with-the-guts-to-enforce-trade-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/13/finally-a-president-with-the-guts-to-enforce-trade-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Leo W. Gerard International President Barack Obama proved Friday he’s got grit. He enforced trade laws. These are special trade safeguard rules, called &#8220;Section 421,&#8221;  that the Chinese had agreed to obey to gain entrance to the World Trade Organization (WTO). They are, however, laws that had gone unenforced by the U.S. in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To survive, Americans must assert themselves as economic patriots</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/01/29/to-survive-americans-must-assert-themselves-as-economic-patriots/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/01/29/to-survive-americans-must-assert-themselves-as-economic-patriots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President For a brief moment, when Congress authorized that $700 billion bailout for the Wall Street wise guys whose recklessness caused the financial crisis that we’re all suffering, federal officials actually considered giving part of the money to foreign banks. Really. They quickly backed away from using American tax dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s theme of unity motivates unionists</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/31/obama%e2%80%99s-theme-of-unity-motivates-unionists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President   The words Barack Obama uses are deeply meaningful to organized labor. He speaks to union members on a gut level about concepts that define their lives: unity and brotherhood. Listen to what he says in his closing argument speech: &#8220;Each of us has a responsibility to work hard [...]]]></description>
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