Stewart Acuff

The remarks below were presented to the Portland to the Northwest Conference on Transmission and Grid Policy to Facilitate Green Energy Generation I ...

How long will America force its own people into poverty just to pad the pockets of those who make more in a day than we could spend in a lifetime?

This piece is co-authored with Mike Langford, President of the Utility Workers Union of America. Michael Williams helped with research for this articl...

Next week we expect Climate Change legislation to be introduced in the U.S. Senate. The legislation will move our country to significant investment i...

This piece is co-authored with Utility Workers Union of America President Mike Langford. Our union, the Utility Workers Union of America, just concl...

This piece co-authored by Stewart Acuff & Bill Fletcher, Jr. We have found ourselves wondering why President Obama is being 'red-baited' ...

"From explaining what's gone wrong in America, to what we have to do to get power back in the hands of common working people, "Getting America Back to...

On Sunday, March 21, 2010, I participated in the Left Forum in New York City. I was a featured panelist at the event, speaking about the current economic crisis and the role Unions are playing in getting economy back on the right track.

Stewart Acuff narrates this unrehearsed video of members of the Utility Workers Union of America phone banking for Mark Critz in Pennsylvania's 12th C...

On March 6, 2010, Stewart Acuff addressed a crowd of union activists at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD. The health care activists wer...

Any student in any beginning economics class soon learns that the way a nation or a society creates wealth is by making things or building things othe...

Our economy is mired in the worst crisis we've had since the Great Depression. The one seemingly insurmountable barrier to reviving the economy is the...

The leaders of the Republican Party and the ideologues of conservatism have no answers for any of the problems that our country and our people are trying to deal with.

All through this three day weekend we will see corporate America thanking Dr. King for his incredible efforts to free African-Americans and fight racial injustice -- but they will stop far short of the whole story.

It is clear that if we are to win the change we voted for last fall, and that many of us have worked for for years, we are gonna have to fight hard, and fight outside the normal Washington lobbying box.

The August congressional recess has been a bizarre season of rightwing brown shirt tactics of real thuggery led by Dick Armey, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich.

We can take advantage of the opportunities we have--a President and Congress which share progressive values -- or we can sit back and squander the moment.

I'm neither a Roman Catholic scholar nor a Biblical scholar, but I can read, and the Pope's language is crisp and clear: restrain the greed of the markets; protect workers; pass the EFCA.

Civil rights and community leaders, local elected officials and union activists held the largest ever demonstration in Arkansas to demand that Sen. Lincoln support the Employee Free Choice Act.

The Employee Free Choice Act, expected to move in the US Senate soon with the seating of new Minnesota Senator Al Franken, will restore workers freedom to form unions and bargain collectively.

We now measure economic progress not by whether unemployment is going down or up -- it's always going down -- but whether we lost more or fewer jobs than we lost the month before.

Never before in Arkansas history, have two of the most important national labor leaders led such a high profile march and rally in Little Rock.