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Fighting Union Busters in a Carolina Carpet Mill

Autor Phil Cohen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2020
In 2017, Workers United/SEIU called veteran organizer Phil Cohen out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot by Mohawk Industries at a North Carolina carpet mill. His hard-hitting account chronicles the resulting labor dispute that rocked a Fortune 500 company. The organizer had to prove management was behind an illegal decertification petition and forced workers to sign using strong-arm tactics. Though terrified of retaliation, witnesses gradually agreed to testify before federal agents. Mohawk retained a high-powered union-busting attorney who appealed directly to ultra-conservative heads of the National Labor Relations Board, while Right to Work Committee lawyers framed the issue as a test case to revoke laws protecting employee rights. The union's only hope rested on presenting evidence too formidable for political bias to surmount. This memoir, infused with dry wit and insights into human nature, blows the lid off the nation's union-busting epidemic, thrusting readers into the tumultuous environment of a union hall in crisis.
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ISBN-13: 9781476683041
ISBN-10: 1476683042
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: McFarland

Notă biografică

Phil is Editor-at-large of Livingmaps Review and the co-founder and research director of the Livingmaps Network. He is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London. Phil started using mapping methods in the 1980's working with young people in East London about their sense of place, identity and belonging. His many publications include Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the Working Class City (1978), Rethinking the Youth Question (1990), London's Turning: the making of Thames Gateway (2006) Finding the Way Home: Young People's Perceptions of class, race and gender in London and Hamburg (2007), On the Wrong Side of the Track: East London and the Post-Olympics (2013), London 2012 and the Post Olympic City (2017), Archive That, Comrade: Left Legacies and the counter culture of remembrance (2018) and Waypoints: towards an ecology of political mindfulness (2019). Further information can be found at: www.philcohenworks.com

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In 2017, veteran Workers United/SEIU organizer Phil Cohen came out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot at a North Carolina carpet mill operated by Mohawk Industries. His hard-hitting account chronicles the resulting labour dispute that rocked a Fortune 500 company.