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		<title>America’s Failed Mole-by-Mole Trade Policy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/02/07/americas-failed-mole-by-mole-trade-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/02/07/americas-failed-mole-by-mole-trade-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alliance for American Manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto parts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign for American’s Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Policy Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stakeholder capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade deficit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United Auto Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Trade Organization]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whack-a-Mole trade enforcement – where a trade case is filed for each injured industry such as auto parts or paper or tires – isn’t the solution to America’s massive trade deficit. Although conservative candidates revel in ridiculing Western Europe, America could learn crucial economic lessons from Germany, which doesn’t rely on Whack-a-Mole and maintains trade surpluses, including one with China in auto parts.]]></description>
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		<title>Retirees Occupy Century Aluminum</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/31/retirees-occupy-century-aluminum/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/31/retirees-occupy-century-aluminum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captain Francesco Schettino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Century Aluminum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Concordia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen E. Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logan W. Kruger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ravenswood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement Heist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Jay Rockefeller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Joe Manchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the 1 percent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the 99 percent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Century Aluminum retirees in Ravenswood, W.Va., worked their entire lives for wages and pensions comparably lower than those of other aluminum workers. They did it believing they made those sacrifices in exchange for good, lifelong health coverage. Over the past two years, however, Century evicted them, about 540 retirees altogether, from the insurance plan. The betrayal burns. Century committed the same treachery by the 1 percent against the 99 percent condemned by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators across the country. Thus the retirees adopted the grandchildren’s protest tactic of encampment. They’re occupying Century. ]]></description>
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		<title>Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk’d Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/24/emblematic-of-1-percenters-cooper-tire-punkd-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/24/emblematic-of-1-percenters-cooper-tire-punkd-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1 percent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[99 percent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashton Kutcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bain Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooper Tire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dirt Diggers Digest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Mattera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Punk’d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Armes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venture capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vikram S. Pandit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vulture capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporations are punking Americans. Corporate executives, the 1 percenters, slash workers’ pay, then give themselves big bonuses. CEOs tell mayors and governors their businesses are in such dire shape they may close or move offshore. Government officials dutifully shovel truckloads of taxpayer cash into CEO hands, then the CEOs grant themselves more perks.  The television show Punk’d, in which actor Ashton Kutcher humiliates famous people, took a five-year hiatus. The 1 percenters gave workers and taxpayers no such break. Punking the 99 percent for profit has only escalated.]]></description>
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		<title>Cooper Tire’s Greedy Lockout</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/22/cooper-tires-greedy-lockout/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/22/cooper-tires-greedy-lockout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooper Tire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lock-Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steelworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USW]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[USW members accepted concessions to help Cooper Tire out of economic trouble. When Cooper returned to big profits, it repaid those workers by locking them out.]]></description>
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		<title>For 2012 Let&#8217;s Restore Our &#8220;Industrial Commons&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/29/for-2012-lets-restore-our-industrial-commons/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/29/for-2012-lets-restore-our-industrial-commons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Grove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo Gerard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Brancaccio&#8217;s Marketplace story Tuesday, Decline of Kodak offers lessons for U.S. business traced the decline of Kodak and the loss of Rochester, NY&#8217;s good, middle-class jobs to Kodak&#8217;s failure to tend its &#8220;industrial commons.&#8221; This is a national problem. For 2012 let&#8217;s resolve to restore our industrial commons and bring manufacturing back to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Careful with Worker Co-ops</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/17/be-careful-with-worker-co-ops/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/17/be-careful-with-worker-co-ops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Stock Ownership Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBEW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mondragon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times prescribes an additional (to OWS) “cure” for what ails us, “Worker-Owners of America, Unite!” by Gar Alperovitz. The United Steelworkers (USW) union has a couple of things to say about that &#8211; and so do I. My wife and I grew up in a housing co-op created by the Amalgamated Clothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In This Season of Giving, Please Give Support to Locked Out Cooper Tire Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/in-this-season-of-giving-please-give-support-to-locked-out-cooper-tire-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/in-this-season-of-giving-please-give-support-to-locked-out-cooper-tire-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooper Tire]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After giving themselves millions in bonuses and a shiny new corporate jet, Cooper Tire executives locked out the workers who actually make the tires. Please visit this site, sign the petition urging Cooper Tire to end the lockout and please share this with all your friends and family via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico’s Mineros Leader Honored with Meany-Kirkland Award</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/17/mexico%e2%80%99s-mineros-leader-honored-with-meany-kirkland-award/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/17/mexico%e2%80%99s-mineros-leader-honored-with-meany-kirkland-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international solidarity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo W. Gerard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Mineros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meany-Kirkland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napoleon Gomez Urrutia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rich Trumka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNTMMSSRM]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exiled Mexican mine workers union leader Napoleón Gómez Urrutia will be honored with the AFL-CIO’s 2011 George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award tonight at a ceremony at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says Gómez Urrutia is a ”truly courageous man who has shown us how difficult and how important it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Voting Fails; Alternative Works</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/08/traditional-voting-fails-alternative-works/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/08/traditional-voting-fails-alternative-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens for Tax Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debit card fee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Reduction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[move your money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporate and clandestine campaign contributions have undermined the power of traditional voting, the kind done at polls on election day. Rather than voters, politicians now serve donors, who invest tens of millions and demand returns in the form of self-serving policy. This is demoralizing to those who cherish democracy and the sanctity of one person, one vote. When the 99 percent forced Bank of America to back off its proposed debit card fee, a ray of hope appeared. Average Americans accomplished this by voting differently, not at the ballot box but at the teller window, the twitter account and the Occupy march. They found another way to exercise their franchise and force the powerful to respond.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Unionists Ramp up Campaign vs. Anti-Worker Law as Vote Nears</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/02/ohio-unionists-ramp-up-campaign-vs-anti-worker-law-as-vote-nears/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/02/ohio-unionists-ramp-up-campaign-vs-anti-worker-law-as-vote-nears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Hoffa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ohio SB5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFCW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite favorable public opinion polls, Ohio unionists are taking nothing for granted and are ramping up their campaign to repeal Right Wing Gov. John Kasich’s anti-worker anti-union law, as a Nov. 8 referendum on it nears. Workers are pounding the pavements showing the everyday impact of Kasich’s measure, SB5, which he pushed through the GOP-run [...]]]></description>
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