Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers’ longest-tenured leader, dies at 78

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers’ longest-tenured leader, dies at 78

Former United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard (left) accepts a key to the city from former Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto in 2019, shortly after Gerard’s retirement.

Leo Gerard spent nearly two decades running the United Steelworkers, a Pittsburgh-based union with profound ties to American industry, but it was his frequent gaze abroad that labor figures say best defined his leadership.

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