AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stuart Acuff says American workers are under such sustained attack the real legal right to organize is virtually gone.

[Stuart Acuff 1] : "We've lost the right to organize in this country. American workers have lost any effective right to organize and bargain collectively."

Acuff says dividing labor and bleeding resources away from the AFL-CIO as a handful of dissident unions are threatening to do weakens labor in its darkest hour.

[Acuff 2] : "It would cut into very important work like the work on politics and legislation, which go hand in glove with organizing."

Acuff says labor is under the worst attack in 80 years and unity now is absolutely vital.

[Acuff 3] : "We're lookin' at the worst assault on workin' people, workin' families and the labor movement in this country in 80 years, since the Palmer Raids of 1919. And we need unity now more than ever."

Acuff is convinced that the AFL-CIO leadership is doing what it should be doing as far as organizing is concerned. And he says that organizing goes hand in glove with politics and legislative action.