{"product_id":"labors-civil-war-in-california-the-nuhw-healthcare-workers-rebellion-paperback","title":"Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCal Winslow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. In 2006 and 2007, disputes developed concerning the practice and direction of the 150,000 member healthcare workers union in California, United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW), with its \"parent\" organization, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSEIU is the second largest union in the US, the fastest growing in recent years. It is a well-organized, well-financed organization, with an ambitious agenda. SEIU perspectives, while packaged as progressive, reject traditional union traditions and practices - union democracy and the idea of \"class struggle\" are replaced with class collaboration, and the union frequently \"wheels and deals\" directly with top management and politicians. In 2007 UHW rejected these perspectives and contested them within the union. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe SEIU international leadership retaliated by placing UHW in trusteeship, firing its officers, seizing its assets, and taking control of all union's activities. UHW leaders and members responded by forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and challenging the SEIU in virtually every unionized site in the state.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis California conflict--SEIU vs. NUHW--is no local brawl; it is not about personalities, it is not about West Coast eccentricities. Its significance is not confined to the fortunes of just one particular union. SEIU's attack, however regrettable, is not the first such--nor will it be the last. The truth is that labor has always been divided, comprised of many currents. The truth is also that there are rights and wrongs in labor, as elsewhere, and that these can expose fundamental divides--in this case two contesting souls in the workers' movement. These are sharply on display today in this dispute--the one soul authoritarian, top-down, collaborationist, the other bottom-up, rank-and-file, class conscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCal Winslow is a historian, the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eAlbion's Fatal Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRebel Rank and File, Labor Militancy in the Long Seventies. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is a fellow in environmental politics at University of California-Berkeley and the director of the Mendocino Institute. He lives in Mendocino, California.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770848051488,"sku":"9781604863277","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e2087340ae2ae022ca3866132f40cc9a.webp?v=1780379423","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/labors-civil-war-in-california-the-nuhw-healthcare-workers-rebellion-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}