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Contents
An Introduction to the Current State of Workers' Rights
A Logical Extreme: Proposing Human Rights as the Foundation for Workers' Rights in the United States
Collective Bargaining Rights in the Public Sector: Promises and Reality
Significant Victories: An Analysis of Union First Contracts
Bad Service Jobs: Can Unions Save Them? Can They Save Unions?
Dancing with the Smoke Monster: Employer Motivations for Negotiating Neutrality and Card Check Agreements
Supreme Court Supervisory Status Decisions: The Impact on the Organizing of Nurses
Law and Collective Bargaining Power: An Experiment to Test Labor Law Reform Proposals
America's Union-Free Movement in Light of International Human Rights Standards
The United States and ILO Conventions 87 and 98: The Freedom of Association and the Right to Bargain Collectively
Members-Only Collective Bargaining: A Back-to-Basics Approach to Union Organizing
The Commercial Temp Agency, the Union Hiring Hall, and the Contingent Workforce: Toward a Legal Reclassification of For-Profit Labor Market Intermediaries
No More Business as Usual: Using Pension Activism to Protect Workers' Rights | | | Product Details: | | | Paperback:
| 355 pages | | Publisher:
| W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Researc | | Publication Date:
| 2006-01 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0880992786 | | Package Length:
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Cutting-edge insight into the labor movementAug 16, 2006
By Tim Evanson
This is one of the best books on the American labor movement to come along in years. Written largely by academics in some of the top institutions of higher education, the book covers everything from the right to form unions to collective bargaining issues to law. The final three chapters are out-of-the-box think-pieces which rank alongide Charles Morris' "The Blue Eagle At Work" and Ellen Dannin's "Taking Back the Workers' Law" in their audacity and insight.
Some sections of the book, while excellent, largely recap work published elsewhere and in greater detail. For example, James Gross' chapter on "worker rights are human rights," Gangaram Singh and Ellen Dannin's chapter on legal strategies to "reclaim" the NLRB, and Charles Morris' chapter on members-only bargaining are examples. Nevertheless, for individuals who do not wish to read book-length treatments of these authors' works, these chapters are terrific.
Donald Wasserman, formerly the director of research and collective bargaining with AFSCME and former head of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, provides a superb chapter on public sector collective bargaining. It is a welcome and much-needed contribution to the labor literature, and should be required reading for any public sector labor negotiator (on both sides of the table).
Juravich, Bronfenbrenner and Hckey's chapter, which discusses the results of first contracts, is a major contribution to the literature. Not only does it provide one of the first surveys of what first union contracts are able to achieve, but the authors suggest a thought-provoking strategy (the corporate or "comprehensive" campaign, applied to the post-organizing/collective bargaining effort) which is sure to generate much discussion among union members and leaders. The chapter is a loud alarm bell for labor leaders and negotiators, showing just how far anti-union employers have gone to undermine first contract negotiations in addition to basic rights of organizing.
Eaton and Kriesky's chapter on union efforts to achieve neutrality and card check organizing agreements comes as the NLRB is actively considering restricting or even banning such agreements. The chapter analyzes management-side views regarding union efforts to achieve "N/CC" agreements, why employers agree to them, and what motivates employers to resist. The chapter provides some extremely interesting findings, which should give every union corporate campaigner pause before embarking on an "economic pressure only" campaign.
Jayne Zanglein's chapter on pension fund activism, the final of the books 14 chapters, also provides valuable insight into new ways of pressuring employers to be good community citizens. The author provides specific legal and strategic guidance to union pension trustees that are eye-opening in their inventiveness.
This book is superb. I'm not quite sure why anyone would pay $100 or more for it (as some re-sellers want) when new copies are available from the Upjohn Institute for $22.
But the book is nevertheless worth that much -- and more -- for the valuable research, insight and advice it offers.
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