The Bosses Union

Author : Vilja Hulden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252053887

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The Bosses' Union by Vilja Hulden Pdf

At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a promising avenue to stability. But both employers and many middle-class observers remained wary of unions exercising independent power. Vilja Hulden reveals how this tension provided the opening for pro-business organizations to shift public attention from concerns about inequality and dangerous working conditions to a belief that unions trampled on an individual's right to work. Inventing the term closed shop, employers mounted what they called an open-shop campaign to undermine union demands that workers at unionized workplaces join the union. Employer organizations lobbied Congress to resist labor's proposals as tyrannical, brought court cases to taint labor's tactics as illegal, and influenced newspaper coverage of unions. While employers were not a monolith nor all-powerful, they generally agreed that unions were a nuisance. Employers successfully leveraged money and connections to create perceptions of organized labor that still echo in our discussions of worker rights.

Author : Shaun Richman
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678565

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Tell the Bosses We're Coming by Shaun Richman Pdf

How labor union organizing can help leverage today's movements, and why workers need unions more than ever before Lengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security... Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labor unions that could garner us protections and help us speak up for ourselves are growing weaker every day. In an age of rampant inequality, of increasing social protest and strikes – and when a majority of workers say they want to be union members – why does union density continue to decline? Shaun Richman offers some answers in his book, Tell the Bosses We're Coming. It’s time to bring unions back from the edge of institutional annihilation, says Richman. But that is no simple proposition. Richman explains how important it is that this book is published now, because the next few years offer a rare opportunity to undo the great damage wrought on labor by decades of corporate union-busting, if only union activists raise our ambitions. Based on deft historical research and legal analysis, as well as his own experience as a union organizing director, Richman lays out an action plan for U.S. workers in the twenty-first century by which we can internalize the concept that workers are equal human beings, entitled to health care, dignity, job security – and definitely, the right to strike. Unafraid to take on some of the labor movement’s sacred cows, this book describes what it would take – some changes that are within activists’ power and some that require meaningful legal reform – to put unions in workplaces across America. As Shaun Richman says, “I look forward to working with you.”

Author : Eve Livingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1786808404

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Make Bosses Pay by Eve Livingston Pdf

Think your union doesn't represent you? Then maybe it's time to change it.

Author : Linda Chavez,Daniel Gray
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400081165

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Betrayal by Linda Chavez,Daniel Gray Pdf

“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.” Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose the corrupt bargain between the labor movement and the Democratic Party. Committed to a far-left political agenda—and to enhancing their own power—union bosses funnel at least half a billion dollars into Democratic coffers every year. And they do it, illegally, by using dues money that workers are forced to pay as a condition of their employment—dues money that each year brings the unions $17 billion, all of it tax-free. What do labor bosses get in return? The power to call the shots in Democratic campaigns and on party policy, extraordinary influence at all levels of government, billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal grants, and special legal privileges that leave them free to act as they please, no matter the consequences for the American people. The cycle of corruption is seemingly endless. Chavez and Gray name names, exposing the many politicians who are in Big Labor’s pocket—including the leading lights of the Democratic Party. Betrayal also reveals: • Big Labor’s all-out efforts in the 2004 election, including how just one local union has launched a $35-million campaign to unseat President Bush • How corrupt union officials use members’ hard-earned money to fund lavish lifestyles—and how their Democratic supporters let them get away with it • How unions flout the law by failing to report any of their political spending to the IRS • How a government report uncovered the Democrats’ sellout to Big Labor—but how the unions and the Democrats sued to keep the report from going public • How the U.S. government lets unions practice legalized terrorism against American citizens • How public-employee unions extort concessions from the government and put Americans at risk by refusing to provide vital services like policing and firefighting • How Americans now live under a system of legal apartheid—one set of rules for labor bosses, another for the rest of us All of us foot the bill for this corrupt system. Now it’s up to us to do something about it.

Author : Shaun Richman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678589

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Tell the Bosses We're Coming by Shaun Richman Pdf

Lengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security... Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labor unions that could garner us protections and help us speak up for ourselves are growing weaker every day. In an age of rampant inequality, of increasing social protest and strikes – and when a majority of workers say they want to be union members – why does union density continue to decline? Shaun Richman offers some answers in his book, Tell the Bosses We're Coming. It’s time to bring unions back from the edge of institutional annihilation, says Richman. But that is no simple proposition. Richman explains how important it is that this book is published now, because the next few years offer a rare opportunity to undo the great damage wrought on labor by decades of corporate union-busting, if only union activists raise our ambitions. Based on deft historical research and legal analysis, as well as his own experience as a union organizing director, Richman lays out an action plan for U.S. workers in the twenty-first century by which we can internalize the concept that workers are equal human beings, entitled to health care, dignity, job security – and definitely, the right to strike. Unafraid to take on some of the labor movement’s sacred cows, this book describes what it would take – some changes that are within activists’ power and some that require meaningful legal reform – to put unions in workplaces across America. As Shaun Richman says, “I look forward to working with you.”

Author : Bernard Weinstein
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783743568

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The Jewish Unions in America by Bernard Weinstein Pdf

Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.

Author : New York (State). Bureau of Labor Statistics,New York (State). Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Labor
ISBN : CORNELL:31924062273689

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Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of New York for the Year ... by New York (State). Bureau of Labor Statistics,New York (State). Bureau of Statistics of Labor Pdf

Author : New York (State). Department of Labor. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Labor and laboring classes
ISBN : PRNC:32101065177675

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Annual Report by New York (State). Department of Labor. Bureau of Statistics Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112105560467

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : New York (State) Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Labor
ISBN : UOM:39015005789477

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Annual Report by New York (State) Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : Brian Greenberg
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0887060463

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Worker and Community by Brian Greenberg Pdf

Worker and Community focuses on the social and cultural impact of industrialization in Albany, New York during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. More than a local study, it uses Albany as a laboratory in which to examine this important force in social history. The study looks first at the full range of economic actions in which the city's workers participated between 1850 and 1884--organized strikes, labor riots, public demonstrations, and reform movements. It also examines community influences as workers defined themselves in part through affiliation with a particular ethnic group, church, fraternal society, and political party. The worker's struggle against prison contract labor, as discussed in Greenberg's text, reveals acceptance of the free labor tradition along with an emerging interest-group consciousness.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1732 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B4910529

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Investigation of Communist Propaganda by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States Pdf

Author : Tilawan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781496983411

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The Laws of the Bosses: by Tilawan Pdf

Who are the bosses? How do they come to power? What are their preferences? How brutal can they be? What have they got to do with a sense of humour? What do bosses do in times of danger? What justice is there to expect from the boss? Who are the subordinates? How can the subordinates survive the bosses? And what has spirit and soul got to do with power play? What are the dangers of body language in the world of the bosses? Where are the answers? They are in The Laws of the Bosses. This book is an impressive illustration of power display by bosses who make their own laws and live by them. The book contains over seventy true-life accounts of power, highlighting the intrigues of several bosses from all walks of life and from all parts of the world.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104251881

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cigar makers
ISBN : WISC:89062299433

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Cigar Makers' Official Journal by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 12-20 include: Cigar Maker's International Union of America. Annual financial report (title varies slightly), 1886-1894. (From 1886-1891 issued as a numbered section of the periodical.).