Strike Back (eBook)

Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today

Joe Burns (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
224 Seiten
Ig Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-935439-95-0 (ISBN)

Infos

How public employees can use lesson's from labor's militant past to reignite public sector unionism

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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.

Autor

lt;div>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.