We are seeing the wanton gutting of the nation’s heavy industrial plant. This tragic waste of blue-collar jobs and working-class lives will not cease as long as we allow government to abet the sacrifice of production facilities to the momentary …
As we enter the 1980s it seems certain that working people in the auto towns will suffer the full impact of the latest round of recession and regional depression. With all their press puffery, the auto executives cannot hide the …
The crisis in the American steel industry is not the one we read about. The steel corporations’ pleas for protection from foreign imports mask an effort to wrest lucrative tax and environmental concessions from Washington, and the Carter White House …
Months, even years will pass before the dust settles over the issues raised by the Steelworkers’ 1977 International union election. Lloyd McBride, the candidate representing the union’s incumbent administration, clearly has won a convincing electoral victory by amassing some 58 …
“Freedom is a hard-won thing. You’ve got to work for it, fight for it, day and night for it, and every generation’s got to win it again.” The newest enactment of this political theme is unfolding in the United Steelworkers …
