Charts, Figures and Tables
Introduction: Negotiations as Democracy Building
Chapter One: Twenty Key Elements of High Participation
Negotiations
Chapter Two: Legal Rope-a-Dope (PASNAP)
Chapter Three: A Punch in the Face (NJEA)
Chapter Four: A Flood of First Contracts (NewsGuild-CWA)
Chapter Five: Radical Roots (MNA)
Chapter Six: The New Boss in Town (UNITE HERE Local 26)
Chapter Seven: Hollow Applause
Conclusion: Participation in Negotiations Helps Build Governing
Power
Appendices
References & Interviews
Acknowledgements
Jane McAlevey is an organizer, author, and scholar. She is
currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at
Berkeley's Labor Center, part of the Institute for Labor &
Employment Relations.
Abby Lawlor is an organizer and labor lawyer based in Seattle,
Washington. She is currently a legal fellow at Public Rights
Project.
Negotiation should be a process of creative aggression, not
technocratic dealmaking that fractures class consciousness.
McAlevey and Lawlor persuasively showhow democratized and
disciplined mass participation creates the power in confrontation
required to win—for unionists and for all movements for justice.
Here we can see abolition as life in rehearsal.
*Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author, Abolition Geography*
At a time when union demand is higher than it's been in almost a
century, Rules to Win By is required reading. This book is armor
for the generation of workers poised to gain power world-wide for
the working class.
*Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO*
McAlevey and Lawlor eloquently detail the approach to negotiations
rooted in the practice of the pace-setting national union known as
District 1199 over eighty years ago. We adhere to the same approach
today as we did in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Read this book to
understand why and how building fighting worker organizations will
serve as the foundation for 21st century movements for racial,
economic, and gender justice.
*Rob Baril, President, 1199NE (SEIU)*
As McAlevey and Lawlor convincingly and movingly show, the way for
unions to win big is by engaging in open and democratic
negotiations. But the wisdom in these pages is universal and
applies well beyond organized labor. Whatever cause you are
fighting for, let this brilliant book be your guide.
*Astra Taylor, co-founder of the Debt Collective and author of
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone*
Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty;
professionals.
*Choice*
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