United Steelworkers (USW)
Leo W. Gerard, International President
With 705,000 members, the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union is the largest industrial labor union in North America. On April 20, 2009, the union filed a petition with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) under Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974, requesting a temporary tariff on Chinese tire imports. The following is excerpted from an August 7, 2009, statement by Leo W. Gerard before a hearing of the Trade Policy Staff Committee of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on the matter of "Certain Passenger Vehicle…
