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Getting America Back to Work - Softcover

Acuff, Stewart; Levins, Richard A.

 
9781934690277: Getting America Back to Work
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1934690279 ISBN 13: 9781934690277
Verlag: Tasora Books, 2010

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America works, but only for the Financial Elite. In Getting America Back to Work, America s best known and foremost union organizer and an award-winning University economist show how to put money and power back into the hands of working families. Dr. Richard Levins shows how money talks , no, screams, in Washington and on Wall Street. Stewart J. Acuff shows how organized people can get America back to working for ordinary Americans.

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Stewart J Acuff has been an organizer for more than 30 years. He started union organizing in1982 as the Service Employees International Union organizing coordinator in Texas where he and his team organized 12 nursing homes in two years. In 1985 Stewart went to Georgia where he founded SEIU Local 1985 and built the union up to 3000 members. In 1990 he became president of the Atlanta AFL-CIO where he organized and led the historic campaign to unionize the 1996 Olympics, labor s biggest victory ever in the South. In 2000 he went to work for the national AFL-CIO. Stewart was organizing director from 2001-2008. Under his tenure the labor movement grew by more than it had in a generation. Stewart developed the policy and legislation which became the Employee Free Choice Act and led the campaign to pass it. Now Stewart is Chief of Staff of the Utility Workers Union of America.Dr. Richard A. Levins is Professor Emeritus of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. He is an award-winning author of books about policy and market power issues affecting the food system. His articles have appeared in major newspapers across the country, in leading industry publications, and in professional journals. His writing draws upon a 25-year academic career involving both advising ongoing businesses and teaching economic principals at the college level. He maintains an active practice in consulting, writing, and public speaking.AUTHOR HOME:: Stewart Acuff--SILVER SPRING MD; Dr. Richard Levins-- MINNEAPOLIS MN

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America works, but only for the Financial Elite. In Getting America Back to Work, America s best known and foremost union organizer and an award-winning University economist show how to put money and power back into the hands of working families. Dr. Richard Levins shows how money talks , no, screams, in Washington and on Wall Street. Stewart J. Acuff shows how organized people can get America back to working for ordinary Americans.

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Verlag
Tasora Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1934690279
ISBN 13 
9781934690277
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
89
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