Hungry for Change, Alaska Union Members Write Their Senators
30th October 2007
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AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff joined 1,200 IBEW union leaders in Alaska, where he found lots of support for America's union movement and our efforts to pass legislation that will level the playing field for workers seeking to form unions.
One of the most important keys to the passage and enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act is the ongoing mobilization of worksite activists, leaders and shop stewards.
Currently, several unions are either building or putting the finishing touches on their worksite activist structures to mobilize for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act—among them, the Electrical Workers (IBEW).
Last spring, AFL-CIO Voice@Work Director Fred Azcarate and I were happy to hold a steward’s training on the Employee Free Choice Act for 1,200 leaders in the IBEW. After that training, Larry Bell, business manager of IBEW Local 1547 in Anchorage, asked me to come to Alaska to train 250 shop stewards from across the state to discuss why the Employee Free Choice Act is the number one priority of America's union movement and to outline steps we need to take to ensure its passage.