Save Our Unions

by Steve Early

Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform."

Genres: Labor, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2013

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Indeed. Unions have such an important role in the ecology of a Society. Without them:
- who is going to drink all that alcohol? You don't think a normal person can drink only off duty.
- who is going to beat up all the Uber drivers?
- who is going to beat up all the wives? I mean, searching for a honest job can be tiresome
- who is going to terrorize the parents: where are the children going to stay tomorrow? With private schools they just pay the bill, and the children are safe
- who is going to make cities unlivable, when the non-unionized robots will pick up the garbage?
- who is going to block the Airports for days at billions of dollars in losses?

One can write 10 volumes the size of this one with the many blessings of the Unions. Without them, the Earth will be such a boring place.

[Brock · Rating 3 out of 5]

"One of the cruel ironies of America's health care system is how poorly it covers caregivers themselves - particularly those who toil, without professional status, in hospitals, nursing, homes, and healthcare." p.155