A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!

La Botz, Dan
Publisher:  Labor Notes
Year First Published:  {12474 A Troublemaker's Handbook TROUBLEMAKERS HANDBOOK How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win! La Botz, Dan Labor Notes An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace. 1991 2005 262pp $17 BC12474-TroublemakersBook.jpg B Book 0-914093-04-5 Dan La Botz's A Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work and Win! is an organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and smaller, everyday problems in the workplace. A wide range of workplace issues is covered including, but not limited to, organisation amongst immigrant workers, against racism, around women's issues and around health and safety. <br> <br>There are also different chapters dedicated to different types of strikes, and instructions on how to go about them, as well as strategic planning for forming and running unions. Large chunks of each chapter contain "inspiring as well as instructive" stories of workers' actual experiences, which help to reinforce the book's underlying premise that "There are common problems and there are collective solutions". <br> <br>The book contains many photographs of actual strikes and successful workers' campaigns as well as a number of comic strips, which portray serious problems in a humorous light, making the book an even easier read. At the end of each chapter there are action questions/exercises, which encourage the reader to relate the chapter to himself and help organise herself better with regard to finding a solution for his personal workplace problem. <br> <br>The writer himself has worked as an organiser for a number of unions. He was a truck driver during the 1970's and a founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. He has vast first hand experience about much of the material he covers in this book. <br> <br>[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] <br> <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>1. The Fight Starts Here <br>2. Basics of Organizing <br>3. Shop Floor Tactics <br>4. Organizing Around Health and Safety <br>5. Dealing with Labor-Management Cooperation Programs <br>6. Reaching Out to Other Unions <br>7. Reaching Out to the Community <br>8. Contract Campaigns <br>9. Strikes <br>10. Wildcat Strikes <br>11. Sitdown Strikes <br>12. Inside Strategies <br>13. Corporate Campaigns <br>14. Organizing Among Immigrant Workers <br>15. Organizing Around Women's Issues <br>16. Organizing Against Racism <br>17. Organizing in the Non-Union Workplace <br>18. Organizing the Unorganized <br>19. Taking Power in Your Local <br>20. Locals to Learn From <br>21. Strategic Planning for Unions <br>22. Beyond the Workplace <br> <br>Appendix A: Corporate Campaign Questionnaire <br>Appendix B: Researching Your Employer <br>Appendix C: Union Newspapers and Rank and File Newsletters <br>Appendix D: Strategic Planning guides <br>Appendix E: Resources <br> <br>Bibliography <br>Index CX6614 1 true true false CX6614.htm [0xc000be5290 0xc000c13b30 0xc001ac72f0 0xc00025b890 0xc00030a1e0 0xc0000e9440 0xc0006790e0 0xc00043de90 0xc000462060 0xc000462870 0xc0004a4240 0xc0004e6750 0xc000f64f00 0xc001894ab0 0xc000ed97d0 0xc0023bb440 0xc0026c3410 0xc000448570 0xc000449d70 0xc001066030 0xc001067d10 0xc00212eb70 0xc00233c480 0xc0023dcf00 0xc00278a000 0xc00279ca50 0xc0027c65a0 0xc0027f0cf0 0xc002804e40 0xc002856660 0xc00286ea20 0xc00286fbc0 0xc002886de0] Cx}
Year Published:  2005
Pages:  262pp   Price:  $17   ISBN:  0-914093-04-5
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6614

An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.

Abstract: 
Dan La Botz's A Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work and Win! is an organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and smaller, everyday problems in the workplace. A wide range of workplace issues is covered including, but not limited to, organisation amongst immigrant workers, against racism, around women's issues and around health and safety.

There are also different chapters dedicated to different types of strikes, and instructions on how to go about them, as well as strategic planning for forming and running unions. Large chunks of each chapter contain "inspiring as well as instructive" stories of workers' actual experiences, which help to reinforce the book's underlying premise that "There are common problems and there are collective solutions".

The book contains many photographs of actual strikes and successful workers' campaigns as well as a number of comic strips, which portray serious problems in a humorous light, making the book an even easier read. At the end of each chapter there are action questions/exercises, which encourage the reader to relate the chapter to himself and help organise herself better with regard to finding a solution for his personal workplace problem.

The writer himself has worked as an organiser for a number of unions. He was a truck driver during the 1970's and a founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. He has vast first hand experience about much of the material he covers in this book.

[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary]



Table of Contents

1. The Fight Starts Here
2. Basics of Organizing
3. Shop Floor Tactics
4. Organizing Around Health and Safety
5. Dealing with Labor-Management Cooperation Programs
6. Reaching Out to Other Unions
7. Reaching Out to the Community
8. Contract Campaigns
9. Strikes
10. Wildcat Strikes
11. Sitdown Strikes
12. Inside Strategies
13. Corporate Campaigns
14. Organizing Among Immigrant Workers
15. Organizing Around Women's Issues
16. Organizing Against Racism
17. Organizing in the Non-Union Workplace
18. Organizing the Unorganized
19. Taking Power in Your Local
20. Locals to Learn From
21. Strategic Planning for Unions
22. Beyond the Workplace

Appendix A: Corporate Campaign Questionnaire
Appendix B: Researching Your Employer
Appendix C: Union Newspapers and Rank and File Newsletters
Appendix D: Strategic Planning guides
Appendix E: Resources

Bibliography
Index

Subject Headings

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