spearheaded efforts to restore a pattern in which all steelmakers provided similar wages and benefits. Mr. Kleiman stepped down from the general counsel's position in 1997, but remained special counsel to the union's president. He officially retired in the summer of 2006, but continued working, most recently in the union's two-month-old strike against Goodyear. Civil Rights Activities Mr. Kleiman was instrumental in bringing the Civil Rights Act to the steel industry in 1974, when a federal judge issued a consent decree establishing goals for hiring women and minority workers and promoting them. This opened U.S. steel mills jobs to both blacks and women. References Illinois lawyers United Steelworkers people 1928 births 2006 deaths Purdue University College of Engineering alumni Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni 20th-century American lawyers