Description

Updated in 2020, this plain-spoken guide will help leaders evaluate and revitalize their unions. For officers who are committed to doing thing differently, Just Elected walks the reader through steps that will mobilize members and breathe fresh vitality into the union. The labor movement isn't about servicing workers, it's about building a sustainable workers' organization - and this handbook shows you how to do it.

Learn about:

>the organizing model (vs. the sevicing model) of unionism;

>the strategic planning needed to build your union;

>the various functions of the union and its finances;

>building a communicaitons network that involves and rallies the members;

>the laws you have to look out for, how to deal with other officers and union staff, and how to organize yourself to do what needs to be done to pull it together and make it all work;

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