Author Archive: Tom Conway

Tom Conway is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).
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How a Dire Shortage of Poll Workers Imperils American Democracy

Released for Syndication: 09/14/2020

Kristi Serwin knows that Americans clamoring for social justice and decent treatment of working people can correct the nation’s course only with a fair,...

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How America Continues to Fail the Health Care Workers Battling the Pandemic

Released for Syndication: 09/08/2020

American Red Cross workers travel from one community to another conducting the blood drives that save countless lives in emergency departments and operating rooms....

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Why Trump’s Attacks on Mail-In Ballots Are a Desperate Attempt to Undermine Democracy

Released for Syndication: 08/20/2020

Joel Buchanan’s stomach turned when he watched poll workers deny ballots to Latinx voters ostensibly because the names and addresses on their driver’s licenses...

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How Donald Trump Abandoned America’s Workers When They Needed Him the Most

Released for Syndication: 08/18/2020

Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) furloughed him and...

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The Federal Agency Designed to Protect Workers Is Trying to Destroy Unions and Weaken Labor Rights

Released for Syndication: 08/11/2020

When Dan Hoskins tried to organize colleagues at an Oregon plant in 2019, vindictive managers marched him past as many workers as possible en...

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Why a Strengthened Labor Movement Is Essential to Fixing America’s Unjust Economy

Released for Syndication: 07/31/2020

Thrown out of work by the COVID-19 recession, hundreds of thousands of unemployed North Carolina residents now risk losing their lights and air-conditioning as...

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Why Decimated Manufacturing Communities Need Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Campaign

Released for Syndication: 07/24/2020

Rich Cucarese and other members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 4889 tend a vegetable garden, cook meals and operate a food pantry for their...

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How Mitch McConnell’s Callous Indifference Puts Ordinary Americans’ Welfare at Risk

Released for Syndication: 07/21/2020

Ken Merkel started cutting expenses as soon as Packaging Corp. of America (PCA) furloughed him along with hundreds of other workers at its Jackson,...

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Why Relentless Enforcement Will Make or Break the New NAFTA

Released for Syndication: 07/10/2020

When thugs gunned down Óscar Ontiveros Martínez in May, they did more than silence a promising figure in Mexico’s beleaguered labor movement. The 29-year-old’s...

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How Donald Trump’s Failures Turned Dallas Into a COVID-19 Hotspot

Released for Syndication: 07/03/2020

As the number of COVID-19 cases in Dallas skyrocketed, Lou Luckhardt worried about his colleagues and the public they serve. Luckhardt, president of United...

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