TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slater,Joseph E.
TI  - Public workers: government employee unions, the law, and the state, 1900-1962 
AV  - HD8005.2.U5 
U1  - 331.88/1135173/09041 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
KW  - Government employee unions
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Collective bargaining
KW  - Government employees
KW  - LAW
KW  - Labor & Employment
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Labor laws and legislation
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index; The Boston police strike of 1919 -- Yellow-dog contracts and Seattle teachers, 1928-1931 -- Public sector labor law before legalized collective bargaining -- Ground-floor politics and the BSEIU in the 1930s -- The New York City TWU in the early 1940s -- Wisconsin's public sector labor laws of 1959 and 1962
N2  - From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced
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