The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor by Early, Steve -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Title Page Dedication Preface and Acknowledgments Organizations and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 - The Quest for Union Renewal

Bankrolling the Left Lessons of the UFW “Union of Their Dreams” Becomes a Nightmare A New School of Hard Knocks

Chapter 2 - Taking the High Road to Growth?

Management’s Anti-Union Campaign Lessons of the MMC Defeat Taking the High Road Instead Bargaining to Organize The Partnership Approach Growth versus Standards at CHW and Tenet A Nursing Home Alliance Internal Criticism Grows Taking the Low Road in Santa Rosa A Different Approach Respecting the “Just Rights” of Workers?

Chapter 3 - A Scramble for New Members

A History of Union Competition A Jump Start from ACORN An Organizing Boost from Blago The Price of “Pay to Play” SEIU versus AFSCME in California At War with the Nurses “A Butt-Whipping They Will Never Forget”

Chapter 4 - Dial 1-800-MY-UNION?

Getting Away from Grievance Handling An Import from Australia A Teletype Model of Representation Mobilizing for Power with Stewards “Our Call Center Is a Little Different” Nothing But Positive Feedback? Some California Complaining The Membership Backlash Against MRCs Megalocal Disengagement A Resource Center Reassessment?

Chapter 5 - Who Rules SEIU (and Who Doesn’t)

SEIU Mergers and Consolidations Resenting Democracy Andy Stern’s Management Team The Abuse of Trusteeships Upward Mobility in Other Unions Not the Best and Brightest A Charmed Existence More Problems in L.A. Hurricane Jane Hits Nevada More Election Misconduct in San Diego Tallying Up the Damage A Megalocal Success Story? The Price of Dissent in Boston

Chapter 6 - The Mother of All Trusteeships

Rhode Island Rebellion An Old-Time Union Bully? From Private to Public Criticism The Anti-Trusteeship Campaign UHW Takeover or Dismemberment? The Ray Marshall Show A Chance for Compromise? Martial Law in Oakland Nurses to the Rescue (but Not for Long) A Different Kind of Union NUHW on Trial

Chapter 7 - Ivy League Amigos No More

Labor’s War of the Roses A Laundry Worker’s Story Up Against “Big Purple” Making Sense of the Craziness The Food Service Fight A Pink-Sheeting Controversy One Casualty of War An April Fools’ Day Deposition

Chapter 8 - The Progressive Quandary

Labor’s Academic Alliance—in Happier Days Presenting a “Left Narrative”—Online and over Lunch A Dialogue Derailed Independent Scholarship or Work for Hire?

Chapter 9 - How EFCA Died for Obamacare

Doubts During the Transition The First Hundred Days A Health Care Summit The Role of Specter and Baucus “Don’t Tax Our Benefits!” A Member-Driven Process? A “Working Class Revolt” The Death of EFCA

Chapter 10 - Labor Day: The Sequel

The Cost of Civil War A Struggle for Succession Healing Together at Kaiser? Kaiser Stewards versus the Staff Help from a Management Partner Old Enemies Organize Together The Achilles Heel of Home Care Unionism A Union Divorce Gets Settled The Hard Slog of SEIU Reform A Purple Parting of Ways with ACORN A Puerto Rican Lesson

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