Partnering for Change
Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice
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Partnering for Change
Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice
About This Book
In the past decade unions and community groups have come together around a wide range of campaigns for economic justice - from fighting for living wages, to electing progressive champions, to questioning market-oriented economic development, to promoting anti-sprawl/smart growth efforts. Partnering for Change brings together activists and intellectuals on the forefront of these organizing efforts. They discuss general patterns of labor-community coalitions in terms of alliances between unions and such community players as environmentalists, religious groups, low-income organizations, and local employers. The contributors also offer a wealth of case studies such as the successful campaign for corporate subsidy accountability in Minnesota, Vermont's Livable Wage Campaign, The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership, and the model regional power building projects of the South Bay AFL-CIO. The volume's editor, David Reynolds, combines a broad overview of labor-community coalitions, practical examples applicable to diverse communities, and an appreciation of the challenges as well as the opportunities for building the movement for economic change.
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Index
- Addison County Economic Development Corporation (Vermont), 115–16
- Affordable housing campaign
- smart growth, 131, 142, 143–44
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), 35, 43
- Stamford Organizing Project (SOP) (Connecticut), 179–86
- Working Partnerships USA (WPUSA) (Silicon Valley), 193, 198–99
- AFL-CIO
- Central Labor Union, 212
- coalition building policy, xvii
- economic development (Massachusetts), 205, 212, 217, 221, 225
- environmental-labor coalitions, 7, 9–10, 13, 16
- environmental liaison, 10, 13
- Good Jobs First, 225
- Housing Investment Trust (HIT), 142, 144, 145
- Kirkland administration, 9–10
- labor-community coalitions (south Florida), 52, 53, 57
- living wage campaign, 71, 72, 78, 83, 85, 121–22
- mobilization strategies, 160–61
- member-to-member mobilization, 160
- Organizing Department, 178
- political coalitions (Connecticut), 160–61
- religion-labor coalitions, 25
- smart growth, 131, 135–36, 138f, 142, 143–45
- “Street Heat” initiative, 83
- Sweeney administration, 10, 53, 72, 142, 177, 185
- Union Cities program, 72, 143–45, 186
- Voice at Work campaign, 185
- worker-to-worker communication, xvii
- Working for America Institute, 205, 225, 245
- See also Stamford Organizing Project (SOP) (Connecticut)
- AFL-CIO (Arkansas), 40–41
- AFL-CIO (California), 34, 35
- AFL-CIO (Connecticut), 154, 155
- AFL-CIO (Greater New Orleans), 35
- AFL-CIO (Illinois), 30
- AFL-CIO (Massachusetts), 41–42, 85
- See also Economic development (Massachusetts)
- AFL-CIO (Metropolitan), 7...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Dynamics of Labor-Community Coalitions
- II. Areas of Common Ground
- III. Institution Building
- IV. Working with Employers
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Index