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		<title>Q&amp;A with Veteran Labor Organizer Stewart J. Acuff</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/06/qa-with-veteran-labor-organizer-stewart-j-acuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Leo W. Gerard: Stewart, you talk about power in a book you’ve written with economist Dr. Richard A. Levins. You called the manual, “Getting America Back to Work.”  What’s the relationship between power and getting people back to work?  Stewart J. Acuff:  A big part of the problem we have with this economy or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Now Go Make Me Do It!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/01/now-go-make-me-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/01/now-go-make-me-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=3575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a quote from Franklin Roosevelt. When confronted with the wishes of his progressive voters, his reply was, &#8220;I agree with you, Now go make me do it!&#8221; In the coming elections this year, that is what Labor and Progressives are going to do. The incumbents in Arkansas and Pennsylvania have opposed the Employee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Union-Busters: We&#8217;ll Give You Supermajority</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/13/hey-union-busters-we%e2%80%99ll-give-you-supermajority/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/13/hey-union-busters-we%e2%80%99ll-give-you-supermajority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 12:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[. Johnny Isakson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[card check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta Airlines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard USW International President Corporate CEOs, union-busting lawyers, and conservative politicians who pander to the rich condemned a National Mediation Board (NMB) Ruling this week. They complained that the NMB gave railway and airline workers the ability to obtain collective bargaining rights through majority-rule elections. That’s the type of balloting that occurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Decade of Disaster for Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/03/a-decade-of-disaster-for-workers-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/03/a-decade-of-disaster-for-workers-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Utility Workers Union of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Stewart Acuff  By Stewart Acuff Chief of Staff of the Utility Workers Union of America A front page story in the Jan. 2 issue of the Washington Post gives a damning report on George Bush&#8217;s economic policy and what happened to our country during the last decade, the decade of the aughts. Put succinctly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Reason for Devotion to Employee Free Choice Act</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/15/new-reason-for-devotion-to-employee-free-choice-act/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/15/new-reason-for-devotion-to-employee-free-choice-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard USW International President Norma Rae and Teddy Kennedy are dead. Well, the woman on whom the 1979 Academy Award winning movie Norma Rae was based – Crystal Lee Sutton – died Sept. 12. Sen. Kennedy died just weeks earlier on Aug. 25. Brain cancer felled both iconic labor heroes. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers Rights Are Civil Rights</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/24/workers-rights-are-civil-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/24/workers-rights-are-civil-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar&#8217;s lot really, but still corporations across America decried it. Good times or bad, somehow Wall Streeters walk away with $700,000 bonuses, you know, on top of their salaries, but a 70-cent minimum wage hike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church and the Employee Free Choice Act</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/21/the-church-and-the-employee-free-choice-act/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/21/the-church-and-the-employee-free-choice-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stewart Acuff Special Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO 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&#8217;s Papal Encyclical for political purposes, part of our effort to pass the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collective Bargaining for America</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/16/collective-bargaining-for-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/16/collective-bargaining-for-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stewart Acuff Special Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO After trillions of dollars in federal spending to lift our economy out of the greatest economic crisis in 75 years, we now know that besides financial deregulation and insatiable greed, the biggest cause of our crisis is 30 years of stagnant and declining wages. We also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/05/gm-bankruptcy-hurts-people-of-color-hardest-workers-desperately-need-efca/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/05/gm-bankruptcy-hurts-people-of-color-hardest-workers-desperately-need-efca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Seth Freed Wessler Researcher at the Applied Research Center When General Motors filed for bankruptcy on Monday, it left behind a long trail of grievers&#8211; twenty-one thousand of them. The loss of these good, union jobs and the many more that will be shed when related businesses close are devastating families and communities. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Betting Against the American Middle Class</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/26/us-chamber-of-commerce-betting-against-the-american-middle-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/26/us-chamber-of-commerce-betting-against-the-american-middle-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Randel K. Johnson, vice president of that esteemed group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, recently revealed a corporate-squelched truth in a slip of the tongue.   During a debate on May 15 with Stewart Acuff of the AFL-CIO about the Employee Free Choice Act, Johnson admitted &#8211; finally &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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