Unions For Beginners

Unions For Beginners

David Cogswell

Language: English

Pages: 176

ISBN: 1934389773

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a society. As the champion of people power versus corporate power, unions help to spread the benefits of production throughout a society. Regardless of the state of the economy, there is the timeless struggle of workers trying to gain or retain their rights. However, a vast amount of Americans (including union members) are unaware of the full history of unions and how they have impacted the American workplace today. Unions For Beginners provides an introduction to that essential history.

Written and illustrated in the user-friendly, accessible style of the For Beginners series, Unions For Beginners presents the epic story of the labor movement in a simple, memorable way. The role of unions in empowering working people to rise above unfair payment and work conditions to become full-fledged participants in the American dream they helped to build is told in vibrant detail. Unions For Beginners presents the history of unions and the labor movement, the principles underlying union organizing, the decline of unions in the shadow of the rising corporate state, and the resurgence in the 21st century of union activism.

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in Southern Colorado, formed by millions of years of pressure of the great weight of the Rocky Mountains. Railroads extended their lines from northern Colorado and New Mexico to meet at the mining area and a mining town was developed called Trinidad. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation and other mining companies drilled into the mountains, advertised for workers and lowered them from 200 to 400 feet below the surface to bring the coal out of the earth. In darkness they hacked away at seams of

was already being prepared for a new conservative reign. Many of the purveyors of the neoconservative movement were nurtured in the Nixon White House, including George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Pat Buchanan and others. 122 UNIONS:Layout 1 8/22/12 11:29 AM Page 123 129 George Meany WORKING CLASS HEROES: George Meany (1894-1980) George Meany was the most nationally recognized labor leader in America for two decades in mid-20th Century, from 1955 to 1979. He was president of the

rely on the good will and understanding of those who profit by exploiting us.... They are shocked that action organizations, sit-ins, civil disobedience and protests are becoming our everyday tools, just as strikes, demonstrations and union organization became yours to insure that bargaining power genuinely existed on both sides of the 13 50" SHM_CTP UNIONS:Layout 1 8/22/12 11:28 AM Page 14 20 table... Our needs are identical to labor’s needs: decent wages, fair working conditions,

behind in income and wealth while the rich made great strides. The effect of NAFTA after nearly two decades was to gut the manufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy and send thousands of jobs to other countries where labor is cheaper. NAFTA is one element of a strategy of corporate domination of all markets in the world. It has helped to increase the profitability of corporations, but has impoverished many Americans by forcing them to compete with or lose jobs to poverty workers in Third World

Occupy Wall Street.” After initial attempts to bully the protestors into leaving with huge military style police attacks on them only served to rouse more support for the movement from across America, the authorities backed down and tried to regroup and consider new strategies. The leaderless movement could not be decapitated. But the question remained, where would the movement go? Unions, politicians, political parties, lobbyists and corporate leaders all sought to discover how to respond to the

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