The U.S. Senate has voted to punish China for maintaining an undervalued currency as Republican presidential candidates have pledged to label China a currency manipulator. The U.S. Senate has voted to punish China for maintaining an undervalued currency

"Wages and personal income are both lower in right-to-work states, yet proprietors' income is higher." The "proprietors," the top dogs, win. The workers, the underdogs, lose. And they're defeated by a special advantage that lawmakers give to top dogs wit

The U.S. Senate has voted to punish China for maintaining an undervalued currency as Republican presidential candidates have pledged to label China a currency manipulator. The U.S. Senate has voted to punish China for maintaining an undervalued currency

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers (USW) issued the following statement today on hearing reports of President Obama's budget proposal that's going to Congress, asking mil

In 2011, U.S exports rose by 14.4 percent to a record US$2.1 trillion. That’s the good news. The bad news is that imports also set an all-time high record of US$2.7 trillion, a 13.8 percent increase over 2010. It's really not that hard to realize that th

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers (USW) issued the following statement today on the record high for the U.S. trade deficit for a single year with China, that includes an

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), today issued a positive but cautious reaction to the signing of understandings reached by the U.S. with the European Union, and s

With President Obama announcing creation of a new trade enforcement unit in his State of the Union Address, the feds probably will investigate. But even if they whack down the auto parts mole, experience has shown a new mole will pop up. For example, Chi

This week three new reports described even more continuing damage to our economy caused by China's trade cheating -- and our own lack of response. Even as the auto industry recovers and auto-assembly jobs are returning, the auto-parts industry and jobs a

Washington —More than 400,000 jobs in the U.S. auto supply chain have been lost since 2000, and another 1.6 million U.S. jobs are at risk unless China's illegal trading practices are curtailed, according to three reports released Tuesday. Two of the repo

Once again, our do-nothing council is trying to pass the buck on store hours. The mayor was elected on this subject. Polls say yes, and our council is not brave enough to take a stand. You get what you vote for. Gerard name best on Steelworkers hall, not

"In reality, they're the silent pirates who looted the ships and left them to sink, along with the retirees, as they sailed away safely in their lifeboats." Most of the Costa Concordia passengers survived, but more than a dozen drowned. In West Virginia,

United Steelworkers District 6 director Wayne Fraser took a swipe at city council Thursday about the controversy over the naming of Leo Gerard Memorial Park in Val Caron. "Think about it folks," said Fraser while speaking at the opening of the new Steelw

Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com, which includes more than 350 of his columns. Unions? Organized

United States Steel Corp. Chairman and CEO John Surma and International President of the United Steelworkers Leo Gerard discussed the relationship between labor and management within a global economy Monday night. There has been speculation about the ope

It was almost a first for union boss Leo Gerard. Gerard was apparently blind-sided when it was announced Thursday that the executive and membership of United Steelworkers Local 6500 had named their new hall after the international president of their unio

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW) issued the following statement today on President Obama's State of the Union Address: "President Obama has listened to us as American workers a

City staff have prepared a report recommending the park in Val Caron be named retroactively as the Leo Gerard Memorial Park. I notice staff were selective in their evidence of widespread community support. In particular, I notice that not one written let

The Leo Gerard Workers' Memorial Park will live on. Following an emotional debate on the proposed park name, during which councillors took turns lauding both Gerard and Ward 5 Coun. Ron Dupuis for their resolve on an issue that had become acrimonious, th