Labor & Employment Law

Labor Book Catalog Offers One-Stop Shopping

By Mike Hall

Sometimes it is awful darn hard to find union- and labor-orientated books, whether you?re looking for how to help in the workplace, labor history or even worker-themed fiction. But a free, new 56-page catalog from Union Communication Services (UCS) puts hundreds of titles on dozens of subjects at your fingertips.

The 2010 edition of the UCS Labor Books Catalog includes scores of classic and new titles on topics ranging from negotiating and grievance handling to organizing, health and safety, labor law and labor history. It includes many worker-friendly fiction and young adult and children?s books as well.

New titles for 2010 include two UCS exclusives, Union Strategies for Hard Times: Helping Your Members and Building Your Union in the Great Recession and Contract Costing for Union Negotiators, which comes with a CD containing template spreadsheets.  Other new books include biographies of Eugene V. Debs and Woody Guthrie, some great new children?s titles and a lot more.

The catalog, now in its 12th year, is produced by the same labor publisher that offers the Steward Update newsletter and widely used guidebooks for union stewards and members.  The catalog includes titles from UCS and some 30 other publishers, including the AFL-CIO National Labor College (NLC) and other major labor education centers.

The catalog is free online at www.unionist.com, from UCS at 800-321-2545 and by e-mail at ucsbooks@unionist.com. You also can send your request via the Postal Service to UCS Books, 165 Conduit St., Annapolis, Md. 21401. Books in the catalog can be purchased directly from the website as well.

UCS, a 100 percent union company, was founded in 1981. The annual catalog, first issued in 1998, is the only one of its kind, dealing exclusively with labor-oriented books.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on November 13, 2010 (boomark / email).