From First Contact To First Contract: A Union Organizer's Handbook - 2024 DIGITAL VERSION

From First Contact To First Contract: A Union Organizer's Handbook - 2024 DIGITAL VERSIONUpdated August 2024 by Bill Barry 199 pages DIGITAL VERSION (PDF) The new edition of From First Contact to First Contract: A Union Organizers Handbook recognizes emerging developments and strategies organizers are using today, with a focus on new organizing. Referencing the experiences of various organizers, the book looks at all the steps of campaign activity, from targeting to getting a first contract. Special chapters on raids and decertifications,

but only if the movement acknowledges its mistakes and fully commits to deep organizing

This book encourages union leaders to examine what is and aim for what could be to build a stronger

Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence

Topics range from William Sylvis’s attempts to admit women and blacks into the labor movement to the first nationwide strike

walks union members and leaders through their rights to speak out

To hear and see him speak is to experience the power of the prophetic tradition in the African American and social gospel

a worksheet for making group assignments

organizing is back

Help staff succeed

ranging from #BlackLivesMatter to the global "Student Strike for Climate" that may be harbingers of mass strikes to come

the COVID-19 pandemic struck the community

Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South