Acuff Hits Road For "Getting America Back To Work"

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

If you didn’t know he has a new job, you’d think Stewart Acuff (r) was still out on the labor hustings, exhorting organizers to give their all. Not quite.  Instead, the longtime AFL-CIO Director of Organizing – and former President of the Atlanta Labor Council -- now the chief of staff for Utility Workers President Mike Langford, is out on the book-signing trail, talking up his easy-to-read, kitchen-table language book about how we got into the present economic mess -- and how to use collective action to get out of it. Sales of the 85-page Getting America Back To Work, by Acuff and economist Richard Levins, are rising among unionists.  Now he’s taking it, published by Tasora Books of Minneapolis and illustrated by Twin Cities artist Steve Sack, on the road….click here for the whole story. - Press Associates, Inc.; photo courtesy United Steelworkers