United Steelworkers Union President Tom Conway Dies at 71 (1)

Tom Conway, who was president of the United Steelworkers union since 2019, has died at the age of 71.

Conway had been active in the union since 1978, the USW said in a statement on Monday, without giving a cause of his death. His leadership coincided with a tumultuous few years in the domestic steel industry: profits surged in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s import tariffs before being buffeted by the pandemic, but the sector has bounced back strongly in recent years.

Conway had a long history with President Joe Biden, stretching back to when ...