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An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.
Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or even impossible. We imagine a different world, too, but billionaires are doing their best to make things worse.
In Unions of Our Own, veteran labor organizer and cofounder of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union Daniel Gross provides a radically new, step-by-step framework for workers who want to dramatically improve their jobs—and dream of bigger changes too. It reveals and puts into your hands the eight fundamental building blocks of a union that meets your needs and values.
Through proven tools, Gross's personal stories from campaigns, vivid history, and real-world examples, Unions of Our Own offers a practical, accessible, and empowering philosophy on how to design your own union and win.
Contents
Introduction
Establishing a connection with the reader, via the miseries of work - lays out the general framework. Includes some of Daniel's experience at Starbucks and Borders
Part 1 | Considering the Union Journey
Work Problems, Work Solutions
Work is daunting, don't be daunted by organizing. It can be done!
Organizing and Operating a Union at Your Job
General overview of what's involved with a union & contrasting to mainstream union models
Part 2 | The Foundational Building Blocks to a Union of Your Own
Building Block 1: Constituency | Choose Your People
Pretty self-explanatory: who is it that you're organizing?
Building Block 2: Problem | What's Most Painful?
Grievances, shared and particular: race, gender, sexualities, status, etc. and how to build on them.
Building Block 3: Solution | Solve Problems with Solidarity
The importance of "an injury to one is an injury to all" how to tackle those questions among co-workers, minority organizing strategies
Building Block 4: Strategy | Power to Win
Becoming coworkers with a sense of collective self; what are our goals, what does winning mean, and identifying strategies
Part 3 | The Sustainability and Growth Building Blocks
Building Block 5: Mechanism | Hold Your Gains, Define Your Character
How to understand collective bargaining, cease-fire agreements, and issue-by-issue agreements, among others. Contrasting the cost / benefits of those for workers' interests
Building Block 6: Structure | A Union You Control
What a democratic union is, why it's important, and how to conceive of a structure that reflects the interests of the workers.
Building Block 7: Funding | Resources to Win
How to conceive of the finances for your new union
Building Block 8: Metrics | Measure Your Model, Focus Your Work
