Upheaval in the quiet zone

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"This expanded second edition of Upheaval in the Quiet Zone updates the dramatic story of an insurgent labor union that by the end of the 1980s had established itself as a vital force in the modern labor movement. But even bigger changes were on the way. Over-coming internal divisions that originated in its 1930s-inflected and civil rights-era militancy, 1199SEIU adopted a new strategy of labor-management cooperation to emerge as a key player in state and city politics. When SEIU president Andrew Stern laid plans in 2006 for a new national health care workers union that would simultaneously reach out to the unorganized and campaign for universal, national health insurance, he turned to 1199 president Dennis Rivera - and the 1199 political model - to lead the effort. With new material that updates the union's history since the 1990s, this book conveys the promise and problems of movement-building in the twenty-first century health care industry."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Service Employees International Union. Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.),  Service Employees International Union,  History, 21st Century,  Labor unions,  Employees,  Staff,  Collective bargaining,  Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center,  Collective labor agreements,  History,  Hospitals,  History, 20th Century,  Hospitals, employees,  Hospitals, history,  Labor unions, united states,  Collective bargaining, united states,  United states, history, 20th century,  United states, history, 21st century,  New York Times reviewed,  Service Employees International Union Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.)

Places: United States