Posted: July 25, 2019 Thomas M. Conway USW International President Bad news about infrastructure is as ubiquitous as potholes. Failures in a 108-year-old railroad bridge and tunnel cost New York commuters thousands of hours in delays. Illinois doesn’t regularly inspect, let alone fix, decaying bridges. Flooding in Nebraska caused nearly half...
The 240-187 House vote Tuesday night to approve a resolution titled “Condemning President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress” was justified and necessary to hold the president accountable for his unacceptable attack on four Democratic House members who are all women of color. But the vote...
I was raised in a company house in a company town where the miners had to buy their own oilers – that is, rubber coveralls – drill bits and other tools at the company store. That company, Inco Limited, the world’s leading producer of nickel for...
After watching both of the Democratic debates, in which 10 Democratic candidates running for president each night presented their cases to the American public, I am concerned that the Democrats are losing sight of their 2020 goal. According to a recent USA Today poll, Democratic voters’ number one concern...
The United States is number one. First to secure independence from a colonial overlord, it boasts the freest speech, the best junk food, and the largest economy. And, frankly, its citizens like it that way. Being free and number one defines Americans. That standing, however, is...
Mick Mulvaney, a millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, awarded himself another job last week: spokesman for labor. Referring to the proposed new NAFTA, he told the Wall Street Journal, “We know that labor supports it.” That, right there, is...
About 90,000 undocumented immigrants ages 19 to 25 will be eligible for California’s version of Medicaid – the health insurance program for people with low incomes – under a state budget deal worked out by Democrats who control the state Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Once the agreement...
Divisions between moderate Democrats and those on the left who are seeking the party’s presidential nomination broke out into the open Wednesday after a report that former Vice President Joe Biden supports the Hyde Amendment – a law barring the use of federal funds to pay for...
There’s a new Koch organization in town. Instead of trying to buy politicians to do the bidding of billionaires, as Charles and David Koch have historically done, this foundation will support community groups trying to cure the miseries of eons– everything from poverty to addiction. And they’ve...
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey’s recent signing of legislation to give her state the toughest anti-abortion law in the nation won’t stop women and girls there from having abortions. The law will just send women and girls to other states or to back alleys once again, making abortion more inconvenient,...