Union Made

by Eric Lotke

Catherine Campbell is a union organizer. She wants to raise wages and form a union at the Pac Shoppe retail chain in Virginia.Nathaniel Hawley is an accountant. He works for the company that’s planning a corporate takeover of Pac Shoppe.Nate develops more than a professional interest in Catherine. When he finds his company using illegal tricks against the union, he faces a choice. Can he interest her by sharing his information? Will it help the union? Will he lose his job, his license and his self-respect? Find out in this gripping, fast-paced love story wrapped in a fierce labor DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE OF SEPTEMBER, 2020 HAS BEEN MOVED FORWARD TO MARCH 15, 2021.

366 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2020

About the author

Eric Lotke has cooked in five-star restaurants and flushed every toilet in the Washington DC jail. He has filed headline public interest lawsuits and published headline research on crime, race and prisons. His most recent novel, Union Made, explores what union organizing means for the workplace, the economy and maybe even the organizer’s love life.

Reviews

[J.J. Lair · Rating 4 out of 5]

They sold this as rom-com with a twist. I wouldn’t go rom-com. The strike chapters are really truthful to life. The corporate espionage and insider trading were the most interesting.
Nate is a character you want to sympathize with, but he causes what happens to him so you can’t feel that bad.
Slow start but it zooms later. Good pacing. Would you believe there is a typo on the last page! Its forgivable because I was into this for all the rest of the story.

[Nicole McCandless · Rating 5 out of 5]

Romance and the Union... my two favorite things!