Strike Back
Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2014
224 pages
978-1-935439-95-0 (ISBN)
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During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history. These workers were able to transform the nature of public employment, winning union recognition for millions and ultimately forcing reluctant politicians to pass laws allowing for collective bargaining and even the right to strike. Strike Back uncovers this history of militancy to provide tactics for a new generation of public employees facing unprecedented attacks on their labor rights.
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Joe Burns
Strike Back
Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
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09/2014
Ig Publishing
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Joe Burns is the author of Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America. A veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer, he has negotiated contracts in the airline and health care industries. He has a law degree from New York University, and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE STRIKE AND THE MAKING OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONISM
- 2. THE TEACHER REBELLION
- 3. THE BACKLASH AGAINST PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONISM AND THE DECLINE OF THE STRIKE
- 4. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE SOCIAL UNIONISM
- 5. THE INSIDE STRATEGY: BLUE FLU, WORK TO RULE AND OTHER NON-STRIKE TACTICS
- 6. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE BARGAINING AND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE
- 7. PRIVATIZATION AND THE "FREE MARKET"
- 8. STRIKING AND THE LAW
- 9. CHALLENGING UNJUST LABOR LAWS
- 10. UPSURGE
- 11. MINORITY UNIONISM
- CONCLUSION: PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
