As union membership and influence shrink and leadership ages, long-time labor activist Early presents Save Our Unions, a clarion call for workers to unite. Thirty-three chapters are divided into seven parts: rebels with a cause; striking back or striking out; organizing for the long haul; labor's health care muddle; telecom labor troubles; is there a leader in the house?; two, three, many Vermonts. Part one assesses past local and national union reform campaigns. Part two takes the pulse of the worker's right to strike in the U.S and abroad. Part three explores two strategies for increasing union density in the private sector. Part four discusses the problems with employer-based medical coverage in the U.S. Part five explores issues with the Telecom industry, and includes a case study at Verizon. Part six addresses the need for new leadership development. Part seven lauds Vermont's social democratic tendencies. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress bringstogether recent essays and reporting by labor journalist SteveEarly. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers,whether they’re trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defendpast contract gains, or bargain with management for the firsttime. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writesabout cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizingand health care reform, and political initiatives that mightlessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party.Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroesand heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers tounion conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrationsof labor’s past and struggles to insure that unions still havea future in the 21st century. The book’s insight, analysis and advocacymake this an important contribution to the project of laborrevitalization and reform.
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