Restoring the Power of Unions
It Takes a Movement
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2010
256 pages
978-0-300-16293-6 (ISBN)
Description
The labor movement is weak and divided. Some think that it is dying. But Julius Getman, a preeminent labor scholar, demonstrates through examination of recent developments that a resurgent labor movement is possible. He proposes new models for organizing and innovating techniques to strengthen the strike weapon. Above all, he insists that unions must return to their historical roots as a social movement.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: Lessons from Life
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Overview
- 1 The Need for Unions
- 2 The Fall of Organized Labor: A Brief Overview
- 3 The NLRA Organizing Process
- Part II: The Story of UNITE HERE
- 4 HERE and Its History
- 5 The Rejuvenation of HERE Local 2
- 6 Organizing Yale's Clerical and Technical Workers
- 7 The Need for a New Organizing Model
- 8 The Culinary Union and the Development of the Comprehensive Campaign
- 9 From Hanley to Wilhelm
- 10 Refining the Comprehensive Campaign
- 11 The Immigration Issue
- 12 HERE in the Twenty-first Century
- 13 Solidarity Rebuffed
- Part III: Why the NLRB Election Process Doesn't Work for Unions
- 14 The Problem of Access
- 15 The Regulation of Employer Campaign Conduct
- 16 The Duty to Bargain and the Protection of Employee Choice
- 17 NLRA Organizing: Law and Reality
- Part IV: The Strike Weapon
- 18 Restructuring the Strike Weapon
- 19 Strikes, Picketing, Comprehensive Campaigns, and the Law
- 20 Comprehensive Campaigns and RICO
- Part V: The Need to Change the Law
- 21 Organized Labor and the Employee Free Choice Act
- 22 Changing the Law of Representation Campaigns and Striker Replacement
- 23 Is the NLRA Worth Saving?
- 24 Beyond Traditional Collective Bargaining
- Part VI: Summing Up
- 25 The Difference between Labor Organization and Labor Movement
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
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