Author Archive: Tom Conway

Tom Conway is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).
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How Americans Can Help the Frontline Workers Battling COVID-19

Released for Syndication: 11/25/2020

Chad Longpre Shepersky repeatedly took COVID-19 tests—and waited on pins and needles for results each time—during a coronavirus outbreak at Guardian Angels Health and...

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How Mitch McConnell Flouts the Will of the American People

Released for Syndication: 11/16/2020

Tim O’Daniel and his coworkers at Cleveland Clinic Akron General confront additional cases of COVID-19 every day in a hospital so busy it’s sometimes...

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Why the Election Represented an Unprecedented Exercise in Democracy

Released for Syndication: 11/06/2020

Ken Yatsko wrote hundreds of postcards and made thousands of phone calls as part of a campaign encouraging fellow union members to perform their...

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How Donald Trump Is Undermining the Will of the American People

Released for Syndication: 10/31/2020

Bill Finkle will brave COVID-19 and drive around Kansas City all day on November 3 giving free rides to seniors who need a lift...

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How Donald Trump Is Putting American Workers at Risk

Released for Syndication: 10/28/2020

Nick Miclaus realized just how much his Goodyear colleagues appreciated rigorous COVID-19 safety measures when they started recommending them to friends and family working...

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How Donald Trump Threatens the Retirement of Every American Worker

Released for Syndication: 10/20/2020

Tom Michels worked 31 years at LTV’s iron ore mine in northern Minnesota—and had already started making retirement plans—when the company’s bankruptcy wiped out...

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How Trump’s Politicization of the COVID-19 Pandemic Put Every American at Risk

Released for Syndication: 10/12/2020

Jackie Anklam realized that Donald Trump was failing the American people when her father died of complications of COVID-19 in a Michigan hospital that...

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How Donald Trump Intends to Weaponize the Supreme Court Against Ordinary Americans

Released for Syndication: 10/08/2020

As a union griever, Jason Haynes fought constant battles against employers ever ready to cheat workers out of overtime pay and other hard-earned benefits....

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How Donald Trump Abandoned Workers After Promising to Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.

Released for Syndication: 09/28/2020

Robert B. “Bull” Bulman stood up to FreightCar America because of the poor pay and hazardous working conditions at its Cherokee, Alabama, factory. But...

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Why Trump’s Promise to Save Manufacturing Was One He Never Intended to Keep

Released for Syndication: 09/24/2020

Bob Kemper recalls the hope Donald Trump intentionally stirred in 2016 by pledging to revive manufacturing and keep factories busy producing steel, aluminum and...

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