[news] Labor needs "that vision thing"

[Resist!ca]

11/9/04 | By David Bacon Oakland, CA -- There's no question that labor pulled out all the stops to defeat George Bush. Over 2000 members of the country's largest union, the Service Employees (SEIU), left their jobs to go campaign in battleground states, and the organization budgeted $65 million for the campaign. The AFL-CIO itself fielded 5000 fulltime staffers and 225,000 volunteers. That made Bush's victory a hard one to swallow. For many of the most progressive leaders of US labor, however, it was more than just bitter - it was threatening. "We have no alternative now but to resist at every level," said Stuart Acuff, the AFL-CIO's organizing director.

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