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Contract Costing for Union Negotiators (with CD)

This incredibly helpful new manual for union negotiators explains both the fundamentals and the details of costing a collective agreement to prepare for and conduct your contract negotiations. It describes the principal ways that contract costs are calculated and expressed by negotiators, and guides you through the process of accurately calculating average wages for your bargaining unit – for contracts with step progression and those without. Chapters in the manual explain how to analyze and calculate the value of contractual benefits: overtime pay, shift differentials and other hourly premium payments; holidays, vacations, personal days and leave time; health, dental, disability and life insurance plans; pensions and savings programs; and other kinds of benefits found in many union agreements. 106 pages paperback with accompanying CD

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The Union Member’s Complete Guide: Everything You Want – and Need – to Know About Working Union

An easy-to-read, thorough explanation of what unions are, how they work, and the rights and responsibilities of membership. Countless workers today became union members only because they took jobs in previously organized workplaces and have little understanding of how unions work. This book gives them that basic understanding and answers bedrock questions about such things as the structure of the labor movement, how contracts are negotiated, the grievance process, core labor laws, their union’s role in their community and a whole lot more. 150 pages paperback

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The Lexicon of Labor

This is an invaluable resource for all unionists, from rank-and-file activists to newsletter editors to union leaders. It offers readable, informative descriptions of more than 500 key terms, places, people and events in American labor history, from explaining who the Wobblies and Knights of Labor were to reporting on the 1997 Teamster strike at UPS. This revised and updated edition includes dozens of new terms and developments and introduces a new generation to the labor lexicon. 235 pages paperback

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The Legal Rights of Union Stewards, 4th edition

This is a 2009, fourth edition (revised) of a classic for labor activists: a thorough and easy-to-use digest of the rights of union stewards and officers. 155 pages paperback
Also available in Spanish, 4th edition, or as a 2 CD audio book. Specify in "Comment" field when ordering.

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The Union Steward’s Complete Guide, 2nd edition

The first edition of this book, published in 1997, quickly became the workplace bible for tens of thousands of stewards across North America. Fully illustrated and indexed, this second edition’s eleven chapters offer hands-on counsel on problems and concerns ranging from the basics of grievance handling to dealing with difficult supervisors or co-workers to ways of increasing membership involvement in the union. New material includes counsel on workplace concerns ranging from computer and privacy issues to a new chapter dealing with the changing workplace, including the growing number of workers from other nations and cultures. 404 pages paperback

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Steward Update Newsletter -- Minimum Subscription

Nearly 2,000 local unions across North America currently subscribe on behalf of more than 80,000 stewards. It's an easy, inexpensive way to give your rank-and-file leaders the skills and counsel they need --- and make them more effective advocates for the union. Minimum order is 20 copies per mailing. Six issues per year. If you need copies in Spanish, please tell us in the special instructions area of your shopping cart. For additional copies, see below.

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