Open letter from the United Steelworkers Leadership

On Tuesday, voters across the country took advantage of the hard-fought right to cast their ballots.  The election is over and Donald Trump will be our next President.

The USW endorsed Hillary Clinton.   We believe she exhibited the qualities and experience most needed for our next president.    She outlined a detailed set of policy initiatives on jobs, trade, infrastructure, education, health care, race relations and immigration that would not only move our nation forward, but expand opportunity for all.

We fully recognize that the members of our union were divided this election season. While our nation’s economy has begun to grow after the devastating economic collapse during the Bush years, it has failed to grow quickly enough. And, as the members of this union know better than anyone, the growth has failed to stimulate the manufacturing sector because of our nation’s failed trade policies which grows out of both  our  political  parties.  Donald  Trump  used  our  own  words  to  speak  to  these problems, and to the real suffering, fears and anxieties that so many feel … more