POWER TOOLS FOR UNION BUILDING
The New Fourth Edition!
This new edition of Bill Barry’s union officer handbook couldn’t come at a better time. Covid has presented labor with obstacles…and opportunities for organizing. I Just Got Elected, Now What? explains how to overcome these barriers and take advantage of corporate weaknesses that the pandemic has uncovered.
All this in addition to many other timeless lessons on how to mobilize members and breathe new life into your union. An essential guide for all union officers working today.
This new edition of Bill Barry’s union officer handbook couldn’t come at a better time. Covid has presented labor with obstacles…and opportunities for organizing. I Just Got Elected, Now What? explains how to overcome these barriers and take advantage of corporate weaknesses that the pandemic has uncovered.
All this in addition to many other timeless lessons on how to mobilize members and breathe new life into your union. An essential guide for all union officers working today.
1 copy: $17 + shipping
10 copies: $14.00 each + $1 shipping/book = $150.00
25 copies: $12.00 each + $1 shipping/book = $325.00
50 copies: $10.00 each + $1 shipping/book = $550.00
Labor and immigrant rights activist Victor Narro believes there is a spiritual core within social justice activism from which we can deepen our solidarity with each other. The work for justice is filled with the values attributed to spirituality – love, compassion, empathy for those in need, and a lifetime commitment to bring justice into their lives.
His book calls us to integrate that inner spiritual core into our work to make the struggle for justice more compassionate, caring, and sustainable. To be an activist for justice is to love humanity and all of creation.
Price: $15.00
His book calls us to integrate that inner spiritual core into our work to make the struggle for justice more compassionate, caring, and sustainable. To be an activist for justice is to love humanity and all of creation.
Price: $15.00
Enchanting discussion with Victor Narro from EMPATHY LABS: click here...
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The Union Member's Complete Guide: Everything you need to know about working union.
An easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to how you can get the most out of your job in a unionized workplace -- from understanding what a union is and how it operates to how you can get the most value out of your union card and what you can do to make your union more successful.
* Understanding how unions operate
* Getting your say in contract demands
* The full story on union dues
* A union's responsibility to its members
* Getting help with workplace problems
* Your union card's bonus benefits
* A member's rights and responsibilities
* Labor laws that affect you
* How to file a grievance
* Your union steward's role
* Contact info for every union
Price: $20.00
An easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to how you can get the most out of your job in a unionized workplace -- from understanding what a union is and how it operates to how you can get the most value out of your union card and what you can do to make your union more successful.
* Understanding how unions operate
* Getting your say in contract demands
* The full story on union dues
* A union's responsibility to its members
* Getting help with workplace problems
* Your union card's bonus benefits
* A member's rights and responsibilities
* Labor laws that affect you
* How to file a grievance
* Your union steward's role
* Contact info for every union
Price: $20.00
1 copy: $20.00 + shipping
10 copies: $16.00 each + $1 shipping/book = $170.00
25 copies: $14.00 each + $1 shipping/book = $375.00
50 copies: $12.00 each + $1 shipping/book = $650.00
Welcome new workers to the union and
Build your power!
Don’t let management’s voice be the only one heard by new employees who hire on in your unionized workplace. Welcome them to the job with this easy-to-read, solidarity-building introduction to unionism.
Most new employees simply don’t understand what unions are or how they work. All they know is what they think they know – and what the boss tells them when they’re hired. That adds up to uninformed, sometimes even union-hostile, co-workers.
Welcome to the Union, by the author of The Union Member’s Complete Guide, helps new co-workers understand unionism. This quick & easy read offers a concise, to-the-point explanation of how unions operate and the vital role every employee can play helping improve the workplace for all.
Suitable for both private and public sector, the pamphlet covers all the important bases, including explaining the democratic nature of union, how collective bargaining works, member rights and responsibilities and just plain basic union structure. It even has a clip-and-save Weingarten Rights card. It’s a perfect ice-breaking handout from stewards or for inclusion in a new-worker membership packet.
A blank back page allows room for you to add your own information: steward contacts, important phone numbers, union officer listings and the like.
Union discount available!
Build your power!
Don’t let management’s voice be the only one heard by new employees who hire on in your unionized workplace. Welcome them to the job with this easy-to-read, solidarity-building introduction to unionism.
Most new employees simply don’t understand what unions are or how they work. All they know is what they think they know – and what the boss tells them when they’re hired. That adds up to uninformed, sometimes even union-hostile, co-workers.
Welcome to the Union, by the author of The Union Member’s Complete Guide, helps new co-workers understand unionism. This quick & easy read offers a concise, to-the-point explanation of how unions operate and the vital role every employee can play helping improve the workplace for all.
Suitable for both private and public sector, the pamphlet covers all the important bases, including explaining the democratic nature of union, how collective bargaining works, member rights and responsibilities and just plain basic union structure. It even has a clip-and-save Weingarten Rights card. It’s a perfect ice-breaking handout from stewards or for inclusion in a new-worker membership packet.
A blank back page allows room for you to add your own information: steward contacts, important phone numbers, union officer listings and the like.
Union discount available!
1 copy: $2.50, free shipping
25 copies: $1.10/copy + $.10/each shipping = $30.00
50 copies: $.95/copy + $.10/each shipping = $52.50
100 copies: $.85/copy + $.10/each shipping = $95.00
200 copies: $.85/copy + $.10/each shipping = $190.00
500 copies: $.85/copy + $.10/each shipping = $475.00
Spanish Language Welcome pamphlets for in-house printing.
Purchase a licensing agreement for your print shop to reproduce the pamphlet in-house.
Call or email for more information: 917 428 1352 or email: info@hardballpress.com
Purchase a licensing agreement for your print shop to reproduce the pamphlet in-house.
Call or email for more information: 917 428 1352 or email: info@hardballpress.com
$100 - for Unions with up to 1,000 members
$200 for unions with up to 5,000 members
$300 for unions with over 5,000 members
LABOR LAW FOR THE RANK AND FILER by Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross |
THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF UNION STEWARDS by Robert M. Schwartz |
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a practical guide to workers’ rights that demonstrates how "solidarity unionism" works. The book is proving to be especially popular among younger workers, including many at Google and Uber, who’ve had little exposure to the mainstream labor movement.
Blending cutting-edge legal strategies with a theory of dramatic social change from below, the authors suggest ways of organizing and mobilizing workers to win justice and fair conditions. The updated edition includes new cases governing fundamental labor rights and can be used not only by union workers, but can serve as a guerrilla legal handbook for any employee in this unstable economy. The book includes a section on tactics and principles of practicing solidarity unionism. Illustrative stories of workers’ struggles make the legal principles come alive. $14.00 |
Whether you're a new union steward, or simply want to bone up on your legal knowledge for an upcoming campaign, Robert Schwartz's The Legal Rights of Union Stewards is a welcome addition to your library.
This easy to navigate book is a primer on your rights as a steward and walks you through all the basics from the National Labor Relations Act to the grievance process to Weingarten rights. The following are the kinds of questions The Legal Rights of Union Stewards tackles: When can you call your boss a liar? Can a manager warn you for soliciting grievances? Do Weingarten rights apply when an employer telephones an employee? Can a criminal conviction bar a union member from running for union office? Can a union settle a grievance without the employees' consent? When a company adopts a drug testing policy, does it have to bargain with the union? $20.00 BACK IN PRINT! |
THE ART OF ORGANIZING by MICHAEL RAYSSON
When a new, heartless administration took over the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the director began taking away benefits that the museum guards had enjoyed for years. The boss even took away their chairs. That’s when the workers began to whisper the word: “Union.”
After a long, hard-fought battle, the workers won their election and became proud union members. But in time, they realized that the International was corrupt and in the back pocket of the museum owners. Now the workers faced the toughest battle in labor: to quietly mount a campaign that would vote out the corrupt union and vote in a new independent one before the International could take over the local. It was a one-in-a-thousand chance. It was a chance they had to take.
“What gives Raysson’s telling of this story added meaning is that he provides a level of personal detail too often lacking in accounts of union building. This isn’t the story of glorious victories or tragic defeats, rather it is the story of everyday integrity and decency, the true bedrocks of unionism. ~Kurt Stand, Stansbury Forum
$17.00
After a long, hard-fought battle, the workers won their election and became proud union members. But in time, they realized that the International was corrupt and in the back pocket of the museum owners. Now the workers faced the toughest battle in labor: to quietly mount a campaign that would vote out the corrupt union and vote in a new independent one before the International could take over the local. It was a one-in-a-thousand chance. It was a chance they had to take.
“What gives Raysson’s telling of this story added meaning is that he provides a level of personal detail too often lacking in accounts of union building. This isn’t the story of glorious victories or tragic defeats, rather it is the story of everyday integrity and decency, the true bedrocks of unionism. ~Kurt Stand, Stansbury Forum
$17.00
A GREAT VISION by Richard March
A FAMILY'S 100 YEAR FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
The eye-opening saga of a militant family begins with grandparents fighting the black shirt fascists in war-torn Croatia after WWI. Their daughter Jane and her young husband Herb March became fearless organizers in the 1930s & 40s Chicago meatpacking industry, as they build the United Packinghouse Workers of America, a multi-racial, democratic union. Herb and Jane inspired their son Rick March to join SDS in the 60's and 70's and engage in guerilla theater to oppose the Vietnam War and racism. As the US is driven toward a new Gilded Age, crushing unions, immigrants and civil rights, the March family fighting the good fight for three generations inspires us to carry on…and win. $17.00 LEGACY COSTS by Richard Hudelson
REMEMBERING THE UAW UNION VICTORIES
Within a century, New Castle, Indiana changed from an agricultural county seat to a prosperous factory town to a deindustrialized and struggling part of the American rust belt. For much of that time, New Castle was a strong union town—a UAW town. For its working-class families, the UAW won a living wage, a company funded pension, and some democratic, collective control over the forces affecting their lives. “Union members, activists and leaders can learn much from this engaging book. But it should be read by all who value equality and dignity and seek to understand our society so we can create a new and better world.” — David Newby, Former President, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO “Readable and concise, a great place to begin exploration of our troubled economy. --Jim Dash, Union Labor News “...traces union victories, the shuttering of the factories and finally some ideas on how unions can regain strength.” —Wisconsin Labor History Society Newsletter $17.00 NEW YORK HUSTLE
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WINNING RICHMOND by Gayle McLaughlin
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” -- Native American proverb.
Political activists, environmentalists, and social justice advocates formed a Progressive Alliance that took their city back from the Chevron Oil Company. They transformed Richmond, long polluted and poisoned, into a national leader in sustainability, equity and grassroots democracy, giving hope to the San Francisco Bay Area, and the world. Gayle McLaughlin was at the center of that long-term struggle, going door-to-door campaigning and serving as the two-term Mayor of Richmond. This is her story. Read Steve Early's review in LA Progressive: A Working Class Mayor Is Something To: Click here. $17.00 WHAT DID YOU LEARN AT WORK TODAY? by Helena Worthen
LABOR EDUCATION & LABOR ORGANIZING
How do workers make a bad job into a good job? Where do they get the power to do their jobs right? These lessons must be learned, but not the way we learn at school, where people study alone, take tests, and succeed or fail as individuals. Helena Worthen's book brings learning theory to labor-management disputes, giving us tools to understand the depth and importance of workers' knowledge. "Helena Worthen's work is brave, exciting and profound. It is the product of a good heart and a good mind. Here is a gift to all of us who are groping towards a theory and practice that promotes learning for justice." D’Arcy Martin, Portside Magazine. "Workers hungrily devour education that reflects their lives and on the job experience. Helena Worthen skillfully weaves the theories of how people learn with real life experiences of workers she's interacted with, both in the classroom, on the shop floor and on the picket line. Anyone aspiring to worker education will find this book invaluable." Mike Matejka, Great Plains Laborers District Council Click here for more reviews of What Did You Learn at Work Today. $17.00 GOOD TROUBLE:
A SHOELEATHER HISTORY OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION 
Bayard Rustin, the architect of the 1963 March on Washington, once said that every community needs a group of "angelic troublemakers" to make nonviolent trouble for change. Good Trouble ...is a shot of adrenaline in the heart for those who hope for a better world. Every story in Good Trouble is a tale of underdog angelic troublemakers overcoming despair to beat the system. This history, in the tradition of Howard Zinn, tells the story of change from the perspective of people in the streets rather than from the gilded walls of corporate, or Washington, offices. —Jackie Allen-Doucot, St. Martin De Porres Catholic Worker, Hartford CT
...a riveting chronicle of stories that prove time and again the actions of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Each story focuses on the power of organizing and mobilizing, relevant in any context, and can serve as a tool kit for nonviolent direct action. —Rev. Damaris D. Whittaker, Senior Minister, Fort Washington Collegiate Church, New York STEVE THORNTON: Some years back, Peter, a close friend of mine was a machine operator who had organized a union at his plant. A referendum his union supported was on the ballot to shut down the state’s only commercial nuclear power reactor. He tacked a notice on the union bulletin board, reminding people to vote. The factory manager ordered him to take the flyer down, but Peter refused. When the manager removed it, the union activist took the notice out of the manager’s hands and put it back up. Peter was suspended but refused to leave the factory and was arrested...Clicker here for the entire essay. Price: $10.00 |
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