Bøger af Bill Barry

This history of the first national strike also covers issues like state and federal power, the role of industrial workers, the development of railroads, immigration and and the different forms of worker organizations in the period after the Civil War.

The challenge of the Janus decision means that unions have to start signing up the non-members, and changing the way they function. This book gives a detailed program for reconstructing your union--and for signing up the free riders. This book gives practical advice for setting up a program, and includes a history of the open shop movement since 1349.

A discussion of the challenges union members face

This 4th edition of Bill Barry's New Union Officer's Handbook couldn't come at a better time. His revised training manual for union leaders is supercharged with lessons learned from the Covid pandemic.Covid has presented labor with obstacles...and opportunities for organizing. I Just Got Elected, Now What? explains how to overcome those barriers and take advantage of corporate weaknesses that the pandemic has uncovered.As Bill likes to say, "Now go out there and do it!"

Updated in 2020, this plain-spoken guide will help leaders evaluate and revitalize their unions. For officers who are committed to doing thing differently, Just Elected walks the reader through steps that will mobilize members and breathe fresh vitality into the union. The labor movement isn't about servicing workers, it's about building a sustainable workers' organization - and this handbook shows you how to do it.Learn about:>the organizing model (vs. the sevicing model) of unionism;>the strategic planning needed to build your union;>the various functions of the union and its finances;>building a communicaitons network that involves and rallies the members;>the laws you have to look out for, how to deal with other officers and union staff, and how to organize yourself to do what needs to be done to pull it together and make it all work;"available from Hard Ball Press and booksellers everywhere.

Based on the author's flight logs and memories, this book recounts four tours of military duty in Vietnam and how tactics and the war effort changed each time. It outlines the routine and risk of daily airlift operations and the various base destinations in chronological order, colored with personal anecdotes.