Utility Workers Union of America

Utility Workers: Fighting for Workers Rights and Democracy

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Afl-Cio, Utility Workers Union of America, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mike Langford, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

Despots and wannabe dictators always try to destroy unions so they can assume complete control. It is up to us to save our democracy and our nation's future.

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Getting America Back to Work

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Getting America Back to Work, Stewart Acuff, Afl-Cio, Unemployment, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Utility Workers Union of America, Dick Levins, Politics News

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Green Energy Generation can Help Rebuild Our Economy

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Green Infrastructure, Green Energy, Utility Workers Union of America, Energy Debates, Politics News

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

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Corporate America Offshoring More Jobs in Economic Crisis

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Getting America Back to Work, Offshoring, Whirlpool, Utility Workers Union of America, Afl-Cio, Financial Crisis, Stewart Acuff, Corporate Greed, Uwua, Politics News

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?

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Q&A with Veteran Labor Organizer Stewart J. Acuff

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

The economic history of the twentieth century is crystal clear. When unions were strong, working people had the lion's share of income and the economy worked well.

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BP's Spewing Oil Best Argument for Climate Change Legislation

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Spill 2010, Stewart Acuff, American Power Act, Utility Workers Union of America, Mike Langford, Politics News

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

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Celebrate Earth Day, New Book "Getting America Back to Work" Connects Good Environmental Policy to Good Economic Policy on Eve of Climate Change Legislation Introduction in U.S. Senate

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Getting America Back to Work, Green Jobs, Stewart Acuff, Utility Workers Union of America, Earth Day 2010, Politics News

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...

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Utilities are a Public Good and Should Be Owned By the Public

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dte, Utilities, Stewart Acuff, Utility Workers Union of America, Mike Langford, Politics News

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

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Punching Holes in so-called Free Market Economics

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afl-Cio, Massey Energy, Bill Flecther, Stewart Acuff, BP Oil, Employee Free Choice Act, Utility Workers Union of America, President Obama, Politics News

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

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Getting America Back to Work

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stewart Acuff, Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Utility Workers Union of America, Economic Crisis, Richard Levins, Dick Levins, Politics News

"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...

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US Trade Unions and the Global Economic Crisis

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Economy, Stewart Acuff, Afl-Cio, Global Economy, Utility Workers Union of America, Left Forum, Uwua, Politics News

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.

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UWUA Politics in Action for Mark Critz

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pa-12 Special Election 2010, Mark Critz, Utility Workers Union of America, Politics, Stewart Acuff, United Steelworkers, Afl-Cio, Uwua, Pa-12-House-Race, Politics News

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...

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The Need for Health Care Reform and a Single-Payer System

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afl-Cio, Health Care Reform, Stewart Acuff, Employee Free Choice Act, Single Payer, Unions, Utility Workers Union of America, Politics News

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...

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Rebuilding America's Manufacturing Jobs and Industrial Capability

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afl-Cio, Manufacturing, Stewart Acuff, Trade Policy, Utility Workers Union of America, Industrialization, Politics News

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...

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Restoring the Right to Form Unions and Bargain Collectively

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Utility Workers Union of America, Employee Free Choice Act, Stewart Auff, Afl-Cio, Joe Biden, Middle Class, Railway-Labor-Act, Politics News

America's broad, deep Middle Class, indeed, the American Dream was formed in the 20-25 years after the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935 which codifie...

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What's Good for the Environment is Good for the Economy.

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Solar Farms, Stewart Acuff, Green-Econ-Green-Collar-Jobs, Afl-Cio, Green Jobs, Employee Free Choice Act, Utility Workers Union of America, Economy, Politics News

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...

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Dr. King and the Struggle for Economic Justice

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Obama Visits Union Apprenticeship Training For Good Jobs Today

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Utility Workers Union of America, Afl-Cio, Department of Labor, Stewart Acuff, Obama, Blue Green Alliance, Green Energy, Green News

As I write this, President Obama is visiting a union apprenticeship facility to see firsthand union training for green jobs.

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