USW Reacts to Report on Romney’s Bain Capital Investment In Brutal Chinese Sweatshop Described at Boca Raton Fundraiser

by Gary Kopycinski on October 1, 2012

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Pittsburgh–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2012 – Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW) reacted today to a new global labor rights report that cites Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney as having “knowingly invested in a brutal Chinese Dongguan sweatshop,” while CEO for Bain Capital through the affiliated Brookside Fund for up to $23 million between 1998-2000.