On Fox News, Acuff Cuts Through the Spin About Employee Free Choice
Here’s a delightful surprise from, of all places, Fox News. When Neil Cavuto interviewed Stewart Acuff, special assistant to the president at the AFL-CIO, about the Employee Free Choice Act, he was pleasantly surprised to find that, contrary to corporate spin, the Employee Free Choice Act does not take away the secret ballot process.
Acuff appeared Friday on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” to bust some of the myths and disinformation that has run rampant about the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill vital to restoring the right to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Cavuto—clearly going on what he’s heard from the corporate shills and political spinners who hope to block the Employee Free Choice Act—asked Acuff whether the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election process for joining a union would be made illegal or eliminated under the Employee Free Choice Act. Cavuto was shocked when Acuff replied that it wouldn’t. In fact, the only change the Employee Free Choice Act makes is that it puts the decision of whether to use a ballot or majority sign-up in the hands of the workers, not their boss.
