Steelworkers hold rally .
Steelworkers hold rally About 300 steelworkers came to the state Capitol yesterday to urge state and federal lawmakers to ease the steel industry's woes. United Steelworkers of America President Leo Gerard addresses a rally of steelworkers from throughout Pennsylvania in the State Capitol in Harrisburg. The union organized the rally to urge Pennsylvania to join other steel-producing states in developing a financial assistance package for the industry. We need action by our government, and we need it now. Sixteen U.S. steel companies have filed for bankruptcy since 1997, when a lagging world economy reduced global demand for steel, and lower-priced steel began to be imported into the United States.