Trade Union Lessons from Early US Trotskyism and US Communism.

Other articles that examine the positive aspects and the success that can be obtained from using a rank-and-file intensive organizing strategy during union organizing drives include Kate Bronfenbrenner and Tom Juravich, "It Takes More than House Calls: Organizing to Win with a Comprehensive Union-Building Strategy", in I Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies i , edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald, and Ronald L. Seeber (Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press, 1998), 19-36; Charlotte A.B. Yates, "Staying the Decline in Union Membership: Union Organizing in Ontario, 1985-1999", I Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations i 55, no. 4 (Fall 2000): 640-74; Dan Clawson and Mary Ann Clawson, "What Has Happened to the US Labor Movement? Other employees achieving victory in union certification elections included those at a New York City Amazon warehouse under the auspices of the Amazon Labor Union and a small office of Google Fiber contractors in Kansas City (Missouri) under the Alphabet Workers Union.[2] A major reason for this uptick in union organizing activity is due to the COVID-19 pandemic with front line workers who were serving customers feeling not only vulnerable, but according to Mark Pearce, who had served as an NLRB chairman and is now a Georgetown University law professor, "they were not only scared, but they were also pissed."[3] And according to 31-year-old Sarah Pappin, a Starbucks union organizer, "We all kick around between the same crappy retail jobs. The Left's organizing tactics and strike leadership roles were distinctly different from the top-down tactics consistent with the business union strategy of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) craft (and other mainstream) unions by emphasizing the importance of rank-and-file participation in the trade unions' affairs. [Extracted from the article]

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