Acuff: Grassroots Campaign for Employee Free Choice Is Just Beginning

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http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/02/17/acuff-grassroots-campaign-for-employee-free-choice-is-just-beginning/

by Seth Michaels, Feb 17, 2009

This month, workers from around the country kicked off a national mobilization for the Employee Free Choice Act—a vital bill to restore the freedom to form unions and bargain—by delivering some of the 1.5 million signatures in support of it to members of Congress. But that’s just the beginning of the broad, grassroots campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and make the economy work for everyone again.

On the Huffington Post, the AFL-CIO’s Stewart Acuff says that to get past the big-dollar opposition from the corporate interests who created the economic crisis, the campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act will need to be a broad, nationwide effort.

It will take a huge demand, a million and a half voices, and the largest grassroots legislative mobilization ever, to win the Employee Free Choice Act and restore balance to an economy ruined by deregulation, obscene greed, a fetish for disastrous free market economics, and 30 years of failed, now completely discredited trickle down economics.


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