AFL-CIO’s Acuff Takes on Union-Busters in Debate

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/09/28/afl-cios-acuff-takes-on-union-busters-in-debate/



Katrina Blomdahl, the AFL-CIO Voice@Work communications specialist, describes a debate that highlighted the impoverishment of the anti-union cause.

Yesterday in Chicago, AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff hit one out of the park for working people in a debate over the freedom to form unions and the Employee Free Choice Act when he went toe to toe with a member of the nation’s multibillion dollar union-busting industry.

Although the debate was not structured to result in an official “winner,” one audience member described Acuff’s opponent, Michael Flaherty—partner of the infamous union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis—as “out of his league.” As Acuff said after the debate:

The truth is that none of the disingenuous legal mumbo-jumbo of union-busting law firms makes any sense to people who are trying to form a union to bargain for a better life.

The Employee Free Choice Act will protect the collective bargaining rights of workers and lift up the middle class—and nothing is more fundamental than that.

The union-busting lawyers say they want to protect the secret ballot because they care about workers’ rights, but as a multi-million dollar cottage industry serving the basest interests of Big Business, it’s clear the only thing they care about is their coffers.

FULL story at link.

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1. If I was a gambler

I would bet the farm that funding for these guys comes from Wal-mart Scaife Coal mine owners, and the non-union car manufacturers in the south.