AFL-CIO: Restoration of Bargaining Rights is Essential For Economic Change - 03/12/08
11th March 2008
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Loading ...By Doug Cunningham
AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff says what working people really need to rise above these hard economic times is a restoration of real union collective bargaining rights. Acuff says people are hungry for fundamental economic change that truly restores opportunities to achieve the American Dream. Acuff says eroded union rights is a big reason that American workers are in this economic crisis.
[Acuff]: “And that is the real economic crisis facing the country today. That’s why the economy is so soft. That’s why we’re headed into a recession and that’s why we have this huge inequality and this huge gap between the rich and the rest of us.