By Doug Cunningham

In a GOP controlled Congress labor is within a hair’s breadth of passing the Employee Free Choice Act to give workers the power to join unions simply by signing cards. AFL-CIO organizing director Stewart Acuff.

[Stewart Acuff]: "When we have a president who will sign this legislation we'll pass this legislation. And when we pass this legislation we will change America. Look, we're in a fight. We're in a fight for the values of this country - traditional American values of an honest day's work deserves an honest day's pay. Render justice every morning, deliver those who have been oppressed from the power of their oppressor. Traditional American values that look to reward work with respect. And to dignify workers, which are now being trampled by a right-wing Republican ideology and corporations that don't value human kind."