Raising expectations (and raising hell) my decade fighting for the labor movement
Prologue: Florida, November 2000Introduction: organizing is about raising expectations -- Whole-worker organizing in connecticut -- Yo-yo : into and out of the national SEIU -- Bumpy landing in las vegas -- Round one : reorganizing desert springs and valley hospitals, and why labor should care more...
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2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue: Florida, November 2000Introduction: organizing is about raising expectations -- Whole-worker organizing in connecticut -- Yo-yo : into and out of the national SEIU -- Bumpy landing in las vegas -- Round one : reorganizing desert springs and valley hospitals, and why labor should care more about primaries than about general elections -- Laying the foundation : at Catholic Healthcare West, an enlightened CEO; at SEIU -- An unenlightened president -- Government workers get militant : big, representative bargaining versus bad -- Laws and bullies -- Launching the 2006 Las Vegas labor offensive -- The gloves come off : union busters, the NLRB, and a purple RV -- The gold standard : what a good contract looks like, and how it relates to -- Patient care -- The CEO, the union buster, and the gunrunner -- Full court press -- Strike! Victory at universal health services, victory in the public sector -- Things fall apart : how national and local labor leaders undermined the workers of Nevada -- Epilogue : New York, May 2012 -- Acknowledgments -- Text. Prologue: Florida, November 2000 -- Introduction: organizing is about raising expectations -- Whole-worker organizing in connecticut -- Yo-yo : into and out of the national SEIU -- Bumpy landing in las vegas -- Round one : reorganizing desert springs and valley hospitals, and why labor should care more about primaries than about general elections -- Laying the foundation : at Catholic Healthcare West, an enlightened CEO; at SEIU -- An unenlightened president -- Government workers get militant : big, representative bargaining versus bad -- Laws and bullies -- Launching the 2006 Las Vegas labor offensive -- The gloves come off : union busters, the NLRB, and a purple RV -- The gold standard : what a good contract looks like, and how it relates to -- Patient care -- The CEO, the union buster, and the gunrunner -- Full court press -- Strike! Victory at universal health services, victory in the public sector -- Things fall apart : how national and local labor leaders undermined the workers of Nevada -- Epilogue : New York, May 2012 -- Acknowledgments -- Text. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | VI, 329 S 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781781683156 978-1-78168-315-6 |