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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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The Union Steward’s Complete Guide, 2nd edition
Edited by David ProstenThe 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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The Union Steward’s Guide, Spanish 2nd edition
Edited by David ProstenThis bound, 158-page compilation contains more than 130 articles from the Spanish language edition of Steward Update newsletter, read today by more than 70,000 stewards across North America. Ten chapters with a full table of contents for each chapter; illustrated. 158 pages paperback
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Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement
By Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking In 1993 the A.E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois locked out 762 unionized workers and demanded the right to contract out every job and implement rotating 12-hour shifts. The workers rebelled, and this book does a fine job of chronicling one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded to the company’s full-scale assault by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and African American communities, building a nationwide solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. 358 pages paperback
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Strikes Around the World: Case Studies of 15 Countries
Edited by Sjaak van der Velden, Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon, and Kurt Vandaele Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? This is a longstanding debate. The much-proclaimed ‘withering away of the strike’ in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the ‘resurgence of class conflict’ in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period since then has been characterized as one of ‘labor quiescence’. Commentators again predict the strike’s demise, at least in the former heartlands of capitalism. 384 pages paperback
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Stupid White Men
By Michael MooreMichael Moore hit the New York Times bestseller list with Downsize This!, in which he took on greedy employers, NAFTA, corporate crooks and other bad guys. With Stupid White Men, which became the best selling non-fiction book of 2002, Moore really hit home with his take on why we are where we are today, pulling it off with more of his special brand of observation that’s equal parts biting humor and penetrating insight. 277 pages hard cover
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Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW
By Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffe The IWW was the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. Founded in 1905, the Wobblies aspired to bring all workers into a single, huge union that could be strong enough to do battle with the corporate giants of their time and help build an economic system in which production would be geared for the public good rather than for private profit. 248 pages paperback
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Strike
By Jeremy Brecher This book tells you something your school history books almost certainly did not: how working Americans for the past 125 years have used the strike again and again to win a degree of justice and fair play. 420 pages paperback
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood
By Richard Rashke This is an updated edition of the groundbreaking book about the death of union activist Karen Silkwood, an employee of a plutonium processing plant, who was killed in a mysterious car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood’s death at age 28 was highly suspicious: she had been working on health and safety issues at the plant, and a lot of people stood to benefit by her death. 426 pages paperback
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Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History
By Grace Palladino Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper. It takes the reader through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and describes numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse affiliates. 304 pages paperback
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Strikes, Picketing and Inside Campaigns: A Legal Guide
By Robert M. Schwartz This book is a must-have for any union or activist considering aggressive action to combat management’s growing economic war against workers. With a deep understanding of the complex web of rules regulating forceful work-related activities, noted labor attorney and author Schwartz offers examples of what unions can do, pointers on how to do it legally, picketing instructions, sample letters, and answers to scores of common questions. 165 pages paperback
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Survival of the Fittest
By Mark Breslin This is a must-read for anyone in the building trades, especially younger workers. In clear, easy-to-read language it explains how to be successful in the trades and, directly linked to that success, how to make union construction thrive and prosper. 162 pages paperback
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