Cooper Tire

Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk'd Workers

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.24.2012

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Leo W. Gerard

A corporation is accountable to its workers, its customers, its community, its country. The executives who run American corporations have forgotten that. Or they reject it.

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Tire Company Accused Of Unfair Labor Practices During Lockout

AP | By JOHN SEEWER | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Video, Union Labor, Lockout, Ohio, United Steelworkers, Cooper Tire, Unions, National Labor Relations Board, Union Labor Laws, Business News

TOLEDO, Ohio -- Factory workers who have been locked out for over a week accused Cooper Tire of unfair labor practices, accusing the company of asking...

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Some Jobs Taxpayers Don't Need to Buy

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beatles, John Lennon, Jobs Summit, Paul McCartney, Works Progress Administration, Credit Default Swaps, Cooper Tire, Paul Krugman, Newpage, Economic Policy Institute, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. International Trade Commission, Fdr, Great Depression, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

A second stimulus is completely reasonable at a time when there are six unemployed Americans for every job opening and when it takes six months on average for an unemployed worker to find a job.

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Enforcing the Rule of Trade Law

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

The USW is in solidarity with Chinese and Indonesian workers who suffer abuse at the hands of their employers. It is governmental policies that injure us both and that we oppose. China cheats.

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