Author Archive: Tom Conway
Tom Conway is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).
How the Federal Government Can Protect Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Crisis
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 03/13/2020
Kimberly Delbrune-Mitter, a cardiac nurse, cares deeply about her patients and remains steadfast in her desire to help them, even as COVID-19 spreads across...
Full ArticleWhy Retirement Insecurity Is the New American Epidemic
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 03/02/2020
The Dow Jones Industrial Average just dropped nearly 1,200 points in a single day because of the coronavirus’s impact on global trade, leaving many...
Full ArticleWhy Is Trump Trying to Kill a Small Agency with a Big Impact on Public Safety?
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 02/26/2020
Pipe fitter Jody Gooch and welders Sedrick Stallworth and William Rolls Jr. stood just feet away when a tank exploded at the Packaging Corporation...
Full ArticleHow 1.3 Million Americans Risk Losing Their Pensions
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 02/11/2020
Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, Louisiana, paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.”...
Full ArticleThe PRO Act Will Help Rebuild the Middle Class
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/31/2020
John Tate felt betrayed when Materion unilaterally cut retirement and vacation benefits at its Elmore, Ohio, plant. He’d devoted 10 years to the company...
Full ArticleHow Trump’s Trade Policies Failed Workers
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/24/2020
Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of The Art of the Deal, promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American...
Full ArticleHow Economic Despair Drives Workers to Their Deaths
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/15/2020
Maria Fernandes was a good-hearted American with a family, ambitions and a rock-solid work ethic. She also juggled three part-time jobs to make ends...
Full ArticleHow Trump Is Abandoning Workers
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/10/2020
Within two months of starting work at an Amazon warehouse in Eastvale, California, Candice Dixon ruined her back. Dixon had to bend, lift and...
Full ArticleThe U.S. Senate Has Failed the American People
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 12/20/2019
Patients have punched Marketa Anderson. They’ve kicked and headbutted her. They’ve slammed her into walls. One threw a shoe, hitting her. Then he threw...
Full ArticleHow Corporations Are Selling Out Their Workers’ Safety for Higher Profits
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 11/25/2019