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Raising expectations (and raising hell) : my decade fighting for the labor movement
- Title
- Raising expectations (and raising hell) : my decade fighting for the labor movement / Jane McAlevey, with Bob Ostertag.
- Author
- McAlevey, Jane.
- Publication
- London : Verso, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ostertag, Bob, 1957-
- Description
- vi, 325 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Florida, November 2000 -- Introduction: organizing is about raising expectations -- Whole-worker organizing in connecticut -- Yo-yo : into and out of the national SEIU -- Bumpy landing in las vegas -- Round one : reorganizing desert springs and valley hospitals, and why labor should care more about primaries than about general elections -- Laying the foundation : at Catholic Healthcare West, an enlightened CEO; at SEIU -- An unenlightened president -- Government workers get militant : big, representative bargaining versus bad -- Laws and bullies -- Launching the 2006 Las Vegas labor offensive -- The gloves come off : union busters, the NLRB, and a purple RV -- The gold standard : what a good contract looks like, and how it relates to -- Patient care -- The CEO, the union buster, and the gunrunner -- Full court press -- Strike! Victory at universal health services, victory in the public sector -- Things fall apart : how national and local labor leaders undermined the workers of Nevada -- Epilogue : New York, May 2012 -- Acknowledgments -- Text.
- Call Number
- JBD 13-386
- ISBN
- 9781844678853 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1844678857 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012033619
- 40021627969
- OCLC
- 767564443
- Author
- McAlevey, Jane.
- Title
- Raising expectations (and raising hell) : my decade fighting for the labor movement / Jane McAlevey, with Bob Ostertag.
- Publisher
- London : Verso, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Ostertag, Bob, 1957-
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021627969
- Research Call Number
- JBD 13-386