USW Supports Trade Case Filing

“By any metric, USW members are the most productive and efficient steelmaking workforce on the planet,” said Gerard. “We cannot allow these family supporting, community sustaining jobs to disappear because our competitors continue unfairly dumping their subsidized products on our shores.”

USW International Vice President and Basic Steel Industry Conference Secretary Tom Conway said a “major overhaul” of U.S. trade policy and enforcement is needed.

“For decades, American workers have paid the price of failed trade policies and inconsistent enforcement of flawed trade agreements,” said Conway. “Congress and the administration need to take responsibility for changing the system that has cost more than a million manufacturing jobs and shuttered thousands of factories, mainly in industries that employ USW members.”