Blueprint for Change

A National Assessment of Winning Union Organizing Strategies

by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Robert Hickey

Despite a climate increasingly hostile to Labor, some unions have experienced organizing success. Blueprint For Change looks at a series of successful campaigns and examines what makes these organizing efforts fundamentally different from unsuccessful ones.

By examining significant victories such as CWA at Cingular Wireless, IFPTE at Boeing, UAW at New York University, PACE at Imerys, SEIU at Catholic Healthcare West, UNITE at Brylane and HERE in the Las Vegas hotels, Bronfenbrenner and Hickey develop a blueprint for the strategies needed for union victory, one that labor activists across a range of workplaces and organizing situations will find very useful.

Kate Bronfenbrenner is the Director of Labor Education Research at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is the co-author and editor of several books on union strategies including Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies and Ravenswood: The Steelworker's Victory and the Revival of American Labor.

Robert Hickey is a Ph.D. student in Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a graduate research associate in the Office of Labor Education Research.

45 pages.