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Showing blog posts by Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers

Stop in the Name of Love—of Country

Photo via the New York State AFL-CIO Facebook page.

The conduct of the New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in rehabilitating the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge can only be described as anti-American.

The MTA plans to send $235.7 million of Americans' hard-earned toll dollars to China for foreign steel and foreign fabrication to renovate a bridge over the Hudson River that Americans built with American steel and American fabrication 50 years ago.

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