A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

Part labor history, part labor law survey, part organizing primer, but most effective as a call to arms and a call for solidarity. Yes, the forces of capital have stacked the deck against us, but, led by organized labor, we the people can win.

They provided few general examples of the tactics they used to fight management. I was hoping for like scripts and exact pictures of what they did and how. Provides some background on the first couple of chapters but after that it sucked.

Thank God someone took time to research and affirm importance of Collective Bargaining. Good job!

I hope the author runs in 2024 for preznit. She has my vote. Brilliant, insightful, useful book.

True to a fault McAlevey shows the good and by sides of unions. More importantly, she shows why they are needed now more than ever..

Great resource!

Excellent and urgent reading!

The author who has been a union organizer and a chief negotiator put together a pretty good book that contains a solid collection of union history both past and relatively current. The past history with what political actions that took place meaning the development of the NLRA and individuals exercising their collective power. It also talks about the many things that have harm unions in general with actions like the Taft Hartley act and other actions by both politicians and the business community that think or want to destroy unions. The attempts to destroy unions is not political party specific either as is noted in this book.It seems to me that this based mostly on service unions but there is a lot of information that is useful if are in a union or thinking about joining unions. There are a couple of examples one dealing with the Teachers Union and their efforts to rebuild their union from the ground up and going through the contract negotiations. The other with a Nurses Union in Philadelphia.There are a couple parts that myself being from a Building Trades union may have a difference of a opinion and the discussion on voter suppression but putting that aside there should many things to learn from. I received an ARC from Edelweiss for an Honest review. (less)