Resource List

Reading list

Here are books that our members recommend. Stay tuned for more!

• Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities by the Coalition Against Campus Debt
• Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations by Jane McAlevey
• Democracy Is Power by Martha Gruelle and Mike Parker “a blueprint for building a member-driven union”
• How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers  by Labor Notes “the best 21st-century example of union transformation done right”
• Power Despite Precarity by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen. A history of lecturers’ organizing in the CFA, and a framework for contingent labor struggles in academia
• Strike Back: Rediscovering Militant Tactics to Fight the Attacks on Public Employee Unions by Joe Burns
• Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America by Joe Burns

Case studies of union revitalization and the power of extended strikes

• Rutgers University AAUP-AFT Local 6324
• University of California UAW Local 2865
• United Teachers Los Angeles
• United Auto Workers

Organizations:

• Labor Notes “the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement”
• Association for Union Democracy “advancing the principles and practices of democratic trade unionism”

Articles about Strike Funds

• What are strike funds? A labor-management relations expert explains (The Conversation)

Articles about Institutional Debt

Making the Invisible Visible: Organizing against the Instructionally Harmful, Antidemocratic Effects of Institutional Debt Eleni Schirmer, Jason Wozniak, Dana Morrison, Joanna Gonsalves, and Rich Levy

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