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Ben Fischer, distinguished public service professor of labor studies and public policy at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, died Sunday, November 12. He was 92.

Fischer’s death marked the end of a career in which he helped change the way the steel industry treated its employees.

Before he joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1981, Fischer worked for United Steelworkers of America. There he served as the assistant to four union presidents and helped change the way minorities and women were treated by the major steel companies.

“There was a lot of racial and gender discrimination in the ’40s and ’50s,” said Bernie Kleiman, general counsel of the United Steelworkers, who worked with Fischer. “[Fischer] started working...

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