Confessions of a Union Buster

Confessions of a Union Buster
Author: Martin Jay Levitt
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A former union buster exposes the dirty tricks that elevated him to the top of his profession and that have transformed the war on organized labor into a billion-dollars-per-year industry. This book is the story of a man who has decided to come in out of the cold, to clear his conscience, and to share the hard lessons he has learned. Line drawings.

A Union Buster Confesses

A Union Buster Confesses
Author: Martin Jay Levitt
Publisher: 39pageguidebooks.com
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991205646

This is the complete reprint of "Confessions of a Union Buster" - at a better price than used. Every Union member, organizer, or those who seek to be heard by management should understand the methods, some illegal, companies will use to stifle your right to organize. This book was written by a 'human relations consultant', the phony title given to people who are paid huge money to break union organizing activity. The author of this book was successful over 200 times. This is his story- and more importantly, his playbook of tricks, lies, and deceit used to accomplish his work. Use it to inoculate members, to train them to see what is happening when the tools exposed by this book are used. Unions aren't pure and innocent, but the havoc and hardship wreaked by people like this on common workers is tremendous. And he admits that. If you want to see the insider's view, this book is a must read. From the Prologue: "Union busting is a field populated by bullies and built on deceit. A campaign against a union is an assault on individuals and a war on the truth. As such, it is a war without honor. The only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten, and always, always attack. The law does not hamper the process. Rather, it serves to suggest maneuvers and define strategies. Each "union prevention" campaign, as the wars are called, turns on a combined strategy of disinformation and personal assaults. When a chief executive hires a labor relations consultant to battle a union, he gives the consultant run of the company and closes his eyes. The consultant, backed by attorneys, installs himself in the corporate offices and goes to work creating a climate of terror that inevitably is blamed on the union. Some corporate executives I encountered liked to think of their anti-union consultants as generals. But really the consultants are terrorists. Like political terrorists, the consultants' attacks are in tensely personal. Terrorists do not make factories and air strips their victims; they choose instead crippled old men and school children. Likewise, as the consultants go about the business of destroying unions, they invade people's lives, demolish their friendships, crush their will, and shatter their families." Now you can buy this classic work brand new-for less than half the price of used- PLUS it is available on Kindle "

Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins

Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins
Author: Ellen Sweets
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-07-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0292742207

“A rendering of a deep and lasting friendship . . . Dozens of anecdotes about Sweets and Ivins and their rollicking adventures in cooking and eating.” —Denver Post You probably knew Molly Ivins as an unabashed civil libertarian who used her sharp wit and good ole Texas horse sense to excoriate political figures she deemed unworthy of our trust and respect. But did you also know that Molly was one helluva cook? And we’re not just talking chili and chicken-fried steak, either. Molly Ivins honed her culinary skills on visits to France, often returning with perfected techniques for saumon en papillote or delectable clafouti aux cerises. Friends who had the privilege of sharing Molly’s table got not only a heaping helping of her insights into the political shenanigans of the day, but also a mouth-watering meal, prepared from scratch with the finest ingredients. In Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins, her longtime friend, fellow reporter, and frequent sous-chef Ellen Sweets takes us into the kitchen with Molly and introduces us to the private woman behind the public figure. She serves up her own and others’ favorite stories about Ivins as she recalls the fabulous meals they shared, complete with recipes for thirty-five of Molly’s signature dishes. Friends who ate with Molly knew a cultured woman who was a fluent French speaker, voracious reader, rugged outdoors aficionado, music lover, loyal and loving friend, and surrogate mom to many of her friends’ children, as well as to her super-spoiled poodle. They also came to revere the courageous woman who refused to let cancer stop her from doing what she wanted, when she wanted. This is the Molly you’ll be delighted to meet in Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins. “Ms. Sweets’s anecdotes about the cast of characters who roundtabled Ms. Ivins’s home are as satisfying as the Texas pistol’s concoctions.” ―The Wall Street Journal

Pollution and the Death of Man

Pollution and the Death of Man
Author: Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-03-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 143351950X

At the creation of the world, God gave mankind the responsibility to exercise dominion over the earth. Man was to use the earth and its abundance of resources to satisfy his physical needs, but he was also to care for the earth and its creatures as a wise and godly steward. Reading about endangered species or another oil spill will make it abundantly clear that the human race has failed miserably in its God-given mandate. How did we get to this point? Where should we go from here? This classic by Francis Schaeffer, now repackaged, looks at contemporary ecological crises through the lens of theology and Scripture. Renowned for his work in applied philosophy and theology, Schaeffer answers serious philosophical questions about creation and ecology. He concludes that we must return to a profoundly and radically biblical understanding of God’s relationship to the earth, and of our divine mandate to exercise godly dominion over it. Repackaged and republished, Pollution and the Death of Man carries an important and relevant message for our day. With concluding chapter by Udo Middelmann.

A Union Buster Confesses - Special Edition

A Union Buster Confesses - Special Edition
Author: Martin J. Levitt
Publisher: 39pageguidebooks.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991205677

This book is specifically for the members of NJASAP*. It is a Special Edition, edited from A Union Buster Confesses, the authorized reprint of the original book. A Union Buster Confesses is available in the full edition as both print and Kindle. Why a Special Edition? The original book is filled with personal circumstances of the author. Mr. Levitt's story is well worth the read from the full book. While excellent reading, the many details dilute the examples needed by this group. Those chapters which recount purely personal issues have been removed for the purpose of clarity. This Special Edition for NJASAP members is very highly refined to bring out as many examples as possible. Not the personal story of the original author, but the tricks, lies and deceit that are the common tools of union busters. And the SE has numerous links and QR codes that connect to short videos of the author making his points as well as highly experienced NJASAP members analysis of sections. And these tactics are evident where we work. Today. Inoculate yourself against the FUD. Learn what to expect BEFORE it happens. (This book was edited, formatted and printed without Union funding by a concerned individual.)

Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son
Author: Lewis B. Puller
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780802136909

When Lewis Puller tripped a booby-trapped howitzer round in Vietnam, triggering a explosion that would cost him his legs, his career as a soldier ended--and the battle to reclaim his life began. "An extraordinary story of survival. And of love."--Mary Jordan, "The Washington Post."

Last Woman Standing

Last Woman Standing
Author: Amy Gentry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544962532

"In Amy Gentry's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Good As Gone, two assaulted women make a pact to kill each other's tormentor. But in the fallout, their paranoia grows until neither is sure whom she can trust. At what cost will their vengeance come?"--

Free Choice for Workers

Free Choice for Workers
Author: George C. Leef
Publisher: Jameson Books (IL)
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This is a captivating chronicle of the fifty-year "David-Goliath" struggle between the bosses of Big Labor and Americans opposed to their coercive power.Few Americans realize their freedom to say "no" to compulsory unionism is largely the result of the valiant efforts of the National Right to Work Committee and its Legal Defense Foundation. Big business and the Republican Party have usually avoided the battle, leaving only Right to Work and its hundreds of thousands of grass roots supporters to defend employee freedom to get or keep their jobs without being forced to pay dues or join a union.Leef's narrative covers the New Deal legislation that gave Big Labor its initial monopoly power, and then the inspiring, decades-long struggle in Washington and the states to reduce the abusive power of labor bosses.The book also teaches a crucial lesson for those involved in public policy wars, regardless of their political philosophy -- that principled and dedicated idealists can prevail against strong special interest groups if they fight for a just cause.

Vendetta

Vendetta
Author: Bryan Burrough
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1993-06-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780006379447

Exposes how American Express used ruthless tactics to destroy the reputation of its competitor, Swiss banker Edmond Safra. This is a dramatic true crime story of corporate espionage and dirty dealing in the powerful world of international banking. Moving from the American Express offices in New York City to a luxurious estate in the South of France to secret meetings with government officials in Peru, it involves a rift between two men who have millions of dollars at stake, the shadowy peddling of information and a cast of characters that includes some of the most influential and successful bankers of the 80s.

Nobody's Son: A Memoir

Nobody's Son: A Memoir
Author: Mark Slouka
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393292312

"I have never before read anything except Nabokov’s Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection’s shaping devices." —Geoffrey Wolff Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial—admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell—in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.