Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress
brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist
Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S.
workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a
strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for
the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early
writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for
organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that
might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our
Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and
heroines, both well-known and unsung.
It takes
readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and
picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure
that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's
insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution
to the project of labor revitalization and reform.
