Union Organizing Update

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-8
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizing

Union organizing: No quick fix

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ Newman
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizing

THE LABYRINTH OF SOLIDARITY: A DIARY OF A UNION ORGANIZING DRIVE AND A FIRST CONTRACT NEGOTIATION

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANET AMIGHI ◽  
JOHN LAVIN
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizing ◽  
Contract Negotiation

Strategies and Tactics in Union Organizing Campaigns

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD B. PETERSON ◽  
THOMAS W. LEE ◽  
BARBARA FINNEGAN
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizing

Negotiating agency and structure: Trade union organizing strategies in a hostile environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragoș Adăscăliței ◽  
Ștefan Guga
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Automotive Assembly ◽  
Agency And Structure

This article investigates a case of successful union organizing in one automotive assembly plant in Romania. The authors argue that in order to explain why the union succeeds in defending workers’ rights there is a need to consider both structural and agency aspects that condition labor’s capacity to effectively defend their interests. The findings show that the union at the Romanian plant has made use of a diverse repertoire of protest activities in order to defend its worker constituency. The authors also discuss why as of late protests are less and less used by the union in response to the shifting economic and political environment in which the plant is embedded. They argue that a closer look at the strategy of the Romanian union and the path it has taken in the past decade provides a better understanding of the conditions for union success in an economic, legal, and political environment that has become increasingly hostile toward organized labor. In this sense, the article points to the more general situation unions in Central and Eastern Europe have found themselves in recent years.

scholarly journals Remedies for Employer Unfair Labor Practices during Union Organizing Campaigns

1968 ◽  
Vol 77 (8) ◽  
pp. 1574
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizing ◽  
Labor Practices

scholarly journals WITHDRAWN: Winning in Baltimore: The Story of How BMORE Put Racial Equity at the Center of Teacher Union Organizing

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Shiller ◽  
BMORE Caucus
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizing ◽  
Teacher Union ◽  
Racial Equity

scholarly journals Research scholars: temp workers or lifetime students? The struggle and organization of subjectivities that are ‘in between’

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Davide Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Union Activity ◽  
Academic Workforce ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This article addresses the process of political organization and unionizing among university researchers in Italy which are formally considered to be ‘in training’. This condition puts them in a sort of liminal space, between being recognized as fully employed professionals and being instead considered lifetime students. Their effort to organize politically can be seen as one of many ways through which students are fighting against the establishment of the neoliberal university model. The analysis is focused on the Italian movement called CRNS - Coordinamento dei Ricercatori non Strutturati (Non-structured Research Fellows Coordination), which formed to address this defining issue. The CRNS experiment aimed at achieving a sense of unity among the fragmented academic workforce and it can be considered a prototype of a new, grassroots form of union activity and organizing. The empirical data used in the analysis consists of ten in-depth interviews with university researchers, all Italian citizens, equally divided between men and women, who have all had to move around, as a function of their career and who have all been involved, to different degrees, in political and union organizing initiatives, regarding their conditions of ‘perpetual students’ rather than ‘not quite employed’.

“To Change the Fundamental Law of the State”: Protective Labor Provisions in U.S. Constitutions

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Zackin
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
Worker Rights ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
State Constitutions ◽  
Labor Activism ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Labor Legislation

As the United States industrialized, its state constitutions began to include protections for laborers. In this article, I describe the origins of these constitutional provisions and ask why labor organizations and other reformers pursued their inclusion in state constitutions. I argue that they saw state constitutions as a vehicle to prompt reluctant legislatures to pass protective statutes, to entrench existing protections against future legislatures, to safeguard labor legislation from constitutional challenges in state courts, and to facilitate further union organizing. Labor activism in this arena is particularly interesting in light of the literature on constitutional change, which contends that constitutional development is a tool through which actors attempt to usher courts into political conflicts; in contrast, I will argue that unions turned to constitutional change in large part to exclude courts from policymaking. Further, the union activism on behalf of constitutional change serves as a challenge to the prominent view among many scholars of American political development and law that judicial hostility to worker rights and union organizing discouraged unions from demanding state protection or institutionalizing their demands through law.

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