It Takes a Village to Win a Union: A Case Study of Organizing among Florida’s Nursing Home Workers

Dorothee E. Benz
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Dorothee E. Benz: Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1180, dotbenz@aol.com

Politics & Society, 2005, vol. 33, issue 1, 123-152

Abstract: Innovative organizing strategies in the labor movement are being driven by the realization that labor law is of virtually no help in helping workers exercise their rights. Unions are increasingly designing strategies that go beyond traditional workplace tactics and draw on a wide range of social actors and relationships in an effort to find and harness new leverage sources. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199 Florida provides one such example. 1199 Florida has a multilayered, multifaceted organizing strategy that attempts to surmount the obstacles of employer resistance and weak labor laws by mobilizing a range of allies and engaging political and regulatory actors.

Keywords: labor; unions; labor law; labor organizing; social movements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329204272549

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