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Tom Conway, Steelworkers President and Biden Ally, Dies at 71
Tom Conway, president of the United Steelworkers union, at a rally in Pittsburgh in 2015.Credit...United Steelworkers International
By Clay Risen
Sept. 29, 2023
Tom Conway, the president of the United Steelworkers union and a friend and unofficial adviser to President Joe Biden, died on Monday at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 71.
His sons Justin and Philip said the cause was lung cancer.
Mr. Conway, who joined the union as a 26-year-old millwright in 1978 and was named its president in 2019, lived through a tumultuous time in his industry, as the once mighty United States steel sector struggled under the twin pressures of deindustrialization at home and cheap imports from abroad.
Today the steel industry is stable and profitable, and the union has 850,000 members — a situation attributable in no small part to Mr. Conway’s leadership.
FULL story: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/business/tom-conway-dead.html