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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
It should be abundantly clear and obvious by now that unions and collective bargaining are not economic culprits but are essential to long term, sustainable economic well being.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
The campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act continues to broaden.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
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.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
We are holding a 24 hour vigil for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act during this Memorial Day congressional recess.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business
Unionization is how the middle class re-emerges. America could do without a few filthy-rich boys lolling on yachts in the Mediterranean.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business
The Stella D'oro story sums it up: Corporate mismanagement, the destruction of an iconic brand and an attempt to destroy the livelihoods of modest working families.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Karl Rove, I challenge you to debate the Employee Free Choice Act. You can pick the time and place, but you cannot limit the audience or exclude the media.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Labor is re-energized by Specter's decision. Grassroots union activity -- already at a fever pitch -- is escalating even more.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics
For workers in the private sector it is harder to form a union and engage in collective bargaining today than it was in 1968.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Now that the Employee Free Choice Act has been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate, organized labor's multi-state grassroots campaign is running at full throttle.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has begun a global organized labor effort to help U.S. unions pass the Employee Free Choice Act. I...
Stewart Acuff | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
If our movement does not produce at this moment in history, folks my age will probably never see this kind of opportunity action.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
We all watch the counts in Alaska and Minnesota, but we can act in Georgia -- it's a place we can all play, where we can all make a difference.
The Real News | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Ensuring a Republican majority in the Senate would mean potential blockage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that gives workers additional rights with respect to unions.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics