Workers across the country know the Employee Free Choice Act would level the playing field and allow workers to make a fair and free decision on whether they wanted to join a union. But as we approach the 2008 elections, it also wouldn't hurt to heed the words of the late comedian George Carlin.
Writing in his "Community Voices" column in the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska AFL-CIO President Vince Beltrami says that although he can't repeat Carlin's famous "seven dirty words you can't say on television," he can substitute seven of his own that working people should remember when we vote in November--greed, corruption, indictments, convictions, apathy, short memories and injustice.
Winners of the AFL-CIO "Turn Around America Online Video Competition" have been chosen. The grand prize goes to Michael Newman, 19, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
