ALSO This Soptic clown is in the Steel Workers video in 2008. Yet we breathlessly heard from the Media the story of poor Joe losing his Steel Workers job well before 2008, and having to take a Janitor position. This needs to be flushed out and explained.
Jeffery Lord (along with back-up from other reporters) lays this out very well. If read from the source (from the beginning) it is easy to follow.
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....."The Steelworkers' executive council appointed Gerard [George Becker's] successor on February 21, 2001. Gerard quickly assembled a slate of supporters (many of them incumbent officers in the international union), and announced he would run for the presidency in the union's regularly scheduled elections in November 2001. He was elected without opposition to four-year terms in 2001, 2005 and 2009. Gerard was the second Canadian to head the United Steelworkers, after Lynn R. Williams (1983-1994)."..... Source