Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer

Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer
ISBN-10
1476778345
ISBN-13
9781476778341
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2016-02-16
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
James D. Walsh

Description

"Salting is a simple concept: get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, unionize your coworkers from the inside. James Walsh spent almost three years as a 'salt' in two casinos in South Florida, working as a buffet server and a bartender. Neither his employers at the casinos nor the union knew about Walsh's intentions to write about his experience. Now he reveals little-known truths about how unions fight to organize workers in the service industries, the vigorous corporate opposition [that can be] against them, and how workers are caught in the battle"--

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