Raising expectations (and raising hell) : my decade fighting for the labor movement /
Jane McAlevey with Bob Ostertag.
Bok Engelsk 2012 Jane. McAlevey,· Electronic books
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (vi, 325 pages )
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Prologue: Florida, November 2000 -- Introduction: organizing is about raising expectations -- Whole-worker organizing in connecticut -- Yo-yo : into and out of the national SEIU -- Bumpy landing in las vegas -- Round one : reorganizing desert springs and valley hospitals, and why labor should care more about primaries than about general elections -- Laying the foundation : at Catholic Healthcare West, an enlightened CEO; at SEIU -- An unenlightened president -- Government workers get militant : big, representative bargaining versus bad -- Laws and bullies -- Launching the 2006 Las Vegas labor offensive -- The gloves come off : union busters, the NLRB, and a purple RV -- The gold standard : what a good contract looks like, and how it relates to -- Patient care -- The CEO, the union buster, and the gunrunner -- Full court press -- Strike! Victory at universal health services, victory in the public sector -- Things fall apart : how national and local labor leaders undermined the workers of Nevada -- Epilogue : New York, May 2012 -- Acknowledgments -- Text.
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| ISBN | 1-84467-922-5
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