2. The Fall of Organized Labor: A Brief Overview

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Lessons from Life vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Overview
7. 1. The Need for Unions 9
8. 2. The Fall of Organized Labor: A Brief Overview 16
9. 3. The NLRA Organizing Process 23
10. Part II. The Story of UNITE HERE
11. 4. HERE and Its History 35
12. 5. The Rejuvenation of HERE Local 2 53
13. 6. Organizing Yale’s Clerical and Technical Workers 60
14. 7. The Need for a New Organizing Model 72
15. 8. The Culinary Union and the Development of the Comprehensive Campaign 79
16. 9. From Hanley to Wilhelm 92
17. 10. Refining the Comprehensive Campaign 101
18. 11. The Immigration Issue 115
19. 12. HERE in the Twenty-first Century 120
20. 13. Solidarity Rebuffed 138
21. Part III. Why the NLRB Election Process Doesn’t Work for Unions
22. 14. The Problem of Access 179
23. 15. The Regulation of Employer Campaign Conduct 191
24. 16. The Duty to Bargain and the Protection of Employee Choice 199
25. 17. NLRA Organizing: Law and Reality 202
26. Part IV. The Strike Weapon
27. 18. Restructuring the Strike Weapon 221
28. 19. Strikes, Picketing, Comprehensive Campaigns, and the Law 229
29. 20. Comprehensive Campaigns and RICO 242
30. Part V. The Need to Change the Law
31. 21. Organized Labor and the Employee Free Choice Act 257
32. 22. Changing the Law of Representation Campaigns and Striker Replacement 268
33. 23. Is the NLRA Worth Saving? 275
34. 24. Beyond Traditional Collective Bargaining 288
35. Part VI. Summing Up
36. 25. The Difference between Labor Organization and Labor Movement 305
37. Conclusion 325
38. Notes 327
39. Index 367