
A Troublemaker's Handbook How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
La Botz, Dan Publisher: Labor Notes Year Published: 2005 First Published: 1991 Pages: 262pp Price: $17 ISBN: 0-914093-04-5 Book Type: Handbooks/Manuals
Resource Type: Book
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
Abstract: Dan La Botz's A Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work and Win! is an organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and smaller, everyday problems in the workplace. A wide range of workplace issues is covered including, but not limited to, organisation amongst immigrant workers, against racism, around women's issues and around health and safety.
There are also different chapters dedicated to different types of strikes, and instructions on how to go about them, as well as strategic planning for forming and running unions. Large chunks of each chapter contain "inspiring as well as instructive" stories of workers' actual experiences, which help to reinforce the book's underlying premise that "There are common problems and there are collective solutions".
The book contains many photographs of actual strikes and successful workers' campaigns as well as a number of comic strips, which portray serious problems in a humorous light, making the book an even easier read. At the end of each chapter there are action questions/exercises, which encourage the reader to relate the chapter to himself and help organise herself better with regard to finding a solution for his personal workplace problem.
The writer himself has worked as an organiser for a number of unions. He was a truck driver during the 1970's and a founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. He has vast first hand experience about much of the material he covers in this book.
[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary]
Table of Contents
1. The Fight Starts Here 2. Basics of Organizing 3. Shop Floor Tactics 4. Organizing Around Health and Safety 5. Dealing with Labor-Management Cooperation Programs 6. Reaching Out to Other Unions 7. Reaching Out to the Community 8. Contract Campaigns 9. Strikes 10. Wildcat Strikes 11. Sitdown Strikes 12. Inside Strategies 13. Corporate Campaigns 14. Organizing Among Immigrant Workers 15. Organizing Around Women's Issues 16. Organizing Against Racism 17. Organizing in the Non-Union Workplace 18. Organizing the Unorganized 19. Taking Power in Your Local 20. Locals to Learn From 21. Strategic Planning for Unions 22. Beyond the Workplace
Appendix A: Corporate Campaign Questionnaire Appendix B: Researching Your Employer Appendix C: Union Newspapers and Rank and File Newsletters Appendix D: Strategic Planning guides Appendix E: Resources
Bibliography Index
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