Honoring the Fallen & Picking Up the Struggle
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This past Saturday was a perfect spring-summer day in Chicago. The sun was bright. The air and sky were clear. There was a cool breeze off the lake. I joined with labor activists from across
Inequality & Racism in the wake of May Day 2013
Yesterday was May Day and Thom Hartmann built his show on RT TV around the global worker’s and union’s celebration that is May Day. His longest panel was AFL-CIO economist Bill Spriggs, Working America’s
Staggering New Statistics on Inequality in America
TODAY ONLY!! I’m giving away the eBook edition of Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing FOR FREE! Get It Now I am so sick of supposedly smart economists wondering how the
Dying to Work
It is 9 pm on a very cold Philadelphia night as I sit down to write this. I’ve just returned from a closed casket viewing of my 19-year-old union brother Mark Keely who was
America Needs Warriors for Justice
It is beyond doubt that we are living in a period of potentially great historical change in the United States. Just a year ago we trade unionists, progressives, and Americans of good will made history
The Church and the Employee Free Choice Act
I was on Fox News last week doing an interview with right-wing talking head Stuart Varney. He began what became a very hostile interview by charging that the labor movement is using Pope Benedict’s
United Steelworkers and AFLCIO Lead Historic Arkansas March for Employee Free Choice Act
On Saturday, July 11, we made history in Arkansas. We — civil rights and community leaders, local elected officials, and union activists and leaders, 1,500 of us– held the largest ever demonstration in Arkansas
4 AM: 24-Hour Vigil in Little Rock
It is almost 4am as I write this at the First Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, AR. We are almost halfway through our 24 hour vigil which began at the state headquarters of Senator
The Real Economic Stimulus
Originally blogged at The Huffington Post at January 31, 2009 Written by Stewart Acuff, former organizing Director of the AFL-CIO, and current Chief of Staff at the Utility Workers Union of America Our government is in
Change We Need
Originally blogged at The Huffington Post on December 17, 2008 Written by Stewart Acuff, former organizing Director of the AFL-CIO, and current Chief of Staff at the Utility Workers Union of America December ’08 Seattle Speech The
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