Resources

Reading Materials

UAW’s History and Problems

• Barry Eidlin (UC Berkeley), Why Our Union Is So Messed Up (2011)
• Robert Wood (UC Irvine), On the Last Joint Council Meeting (2011)
• Jeanne Scheper (UC Irvine), Visualize Academic Labor in the 1990s: Inventing an Activist Archive in Santa Barbara (2005)
• Richard Sullivan (Illinois State U.), Pyrrhic Victory at UC Santa Barbara: The Struggle for Labor’s New Identity (2003)
• Soldiers of Solidarity (UAW reform group), UAW History (July 31, 2010)

AWDU Resources

• AWDU, proposal to investigate the 12/2010 contract vote and notes on that proposal’s rejection by the E-Board (2011)
• AWDU-UCB, Campaign Committee Proposal (January 25, 2011)
• Cheryl Deutsch, Open Letter to the Joint Council (2011)
• Sara Smith (UC Santa Cruz), The UAW is Anti-Democratic (Feb. 24, 2011)

UAW Resources

• Soldiers of Solidarity, How To Make a Motion (Robert’s Rules Simplified)
• UAW 2865 Bylaws
• UAW 2865 UCLA Unit Bylaws
• UAW 2865, Know Your Rights

Relevant Books

• Philip Dray, There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Doubleday, 2010)
• Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (1975; South End Press, 1999)
• Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Basic Books, 1995)
• Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin, Left Out: Reds and America’s Industrial Unions (Campbridge UP, 2002)

General Budget Crisis Materials

• Chop from the Top! Press Release (for March 2nd, 2011 Day of Action)