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Key Senators, Krugman Call for Tariffs on High-Carbon-Footprint Imports

Mike Elk | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Evan Bayh, Russ Feingold, Barack Obama, Copenhagen 2009, Robert Bryd, Tire Imports, Al Franken, Globalization, United Steelworkers, Paul Krugman, Climate Change, India, Leo Gerard, China, Unions, G-20, Business News
Mike Elk

In the wake of the China tire-import decision, we have heard a lot of rhetoric falsely labeling it as the beginning of a trade war. It is not. Workers around the world are engaged in an effort to protect themselves.

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New Reason for Devotion to Employee Free Choice Act

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Steel Workers Union, Union Card Checks, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice, Efca, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

For Ted Kennedy, for Crystal Lee Sutton, for us all, America ought to have the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Obama Shows Encouraging Signs on China, But Is It A Smokescreen?

Mike Elk | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Free Trade, Harry Reid, Section 421, Leo Gerard, Barack Obama, Office of U.S. Trade Representative, Unions, China, Business News
Mike Elk

While the Administration is making some initially encouraging signs on trade, only over time will we know whether the Administration truly intends to pursue a policy of fair trade that leads to prosperity in all nations.

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Forging a Green Economic Recovery at Home

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: General Electric, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Impact Act, Sherrod Brown, Renewable Energy, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Protectionism, China, Barack Obama, International-Brotherhood-of-Electrical-Workers, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Kentucky, Climate Change, Leo Gerard, Ibew, China Economy, Politics News
Edwin D. Hill

Manufacturing is moving into a new, energy-efficient stage, but it's in danger of leaving out the American worker altogether without an aggressive approach in Washington to encourage its domestic growth.

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Lobbyists Paid Off by China vs. 30,000 U.S. Workers: Which Side Will Obama Choose?

Mike Elk | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Outsourcing, General Electric, Tires, Rob Portman, International Trade Commission, Leo Gerard, China, Barack Obama, Bush, Business News
Mike Elk

So far over 8,000 people have lost their jobs, and over 20,000 more jobs are at risk if the Chinese are allowed to continue with this strategy of not obeying trade laws.

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GE Promotes Manufacturing Jobs in US, Then Ships 'em Overseas

Mike Elk | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Outsourcing, United Steel Workers Union, Economic Recovery, Ge, Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Doug Barlett, Economy, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Leo Gerard, Jeffrey Immelt, China, Barack Obama, Business News
Mike Elk

Without a new American manufacturing policy there will be no economic recovery. We need to move beyond a bubble economy built on debt and financial speculation and into a real economy that actually makes products.

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Will Protectionism Protect Our Workers?

Danny Schechter | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Green Economy, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Protectionism, China, Trade Policy, Tarriffs, Business News
Danny Schechter

Many in China already resent US economic bullying and blame Wall Street for selling them junk loans and infected financial products that have caused vast economic losses.

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July 11th: Giant Employee Free Choice Act Events Across Arkansas

Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Employee Free Choice Act, Stewart Acuff, Richard Trumka, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

Never before in Arkansas history, have two of the most important national labor leaders led such a high profile march and rally in Little Rock.

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Did Barack Obama "Kill" the Progressive Movement?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Matters, Rahm Emanuel, Dana Milbank, Keith Ellison, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, Leo Gerard, America's Future Now, Cramdown, Barack Obama, Naomi Klein, Center for American Progress, Progressives, Obama Progressives, Progressive Movement, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

I understand that nobody wants to be on the outside like they were during the Bush years, but the price of a few cocktail parties at the White House -- and the threat of lost donors -- is buying a lot more than it should.

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