1.0 link 209251 <![CDATA[New Tactics Emerge in Campaign to Pass the Employee Free Choice Act]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stewart-acuff/new-tactics-emerge-in-cam_b_209251.html The AFL-CIO has again intensified its national grassroots campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, adopting tactics and new strategies more familiar in social movements than in traditional legislative fights.

Unlike almost all recent legislative fights, the AFL-CIO has greatly relied on real, very close to the ground grassroots and rank-and-file activity to generate personal communication with policy makers - phone calls, handwritten letters, face-to-face meetings.

But in this Memorial Day recess, the AFL-CIO has turned up the intensity with tactics...

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