Managing Tomorrow's High-Performance Unions

Only by adopting a new style of high-performance union management can labor recover and revitalize itself, says Thomas A. Hannigan, a 40-year member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. His book offers a practical, common sense understanding of how a successful management works and how it can be used in day-to-day union activities. For the first time, he links the nine basic union functions to the four basic management functions. Written specifically for union officers and upcoming leaders, the book provides them with a way to translate material customarily directed to business executives into language that labor people can understand and put to immediate use. The book also offers a potent alternative to today's slice and slash, centralize and downsize union style of management. In addition, it offers a blueprint for building new unions and making labor more effective, not only for its own benefit, but also for the benefit of American society. An important, readable, unique text for people at almost all levels of union administration and industrial relations. Students will also be exposed to an entirely new dimension of the American labor movement.

THOMAS A. HANNIGAN has been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 134, for more than 40 years. /e Starting as an apprentice and moving up to journeyman electrician, steward, foreman, and, at the international union level, to Director of the Research and Education Department to Executive Assistant to the International Secretary. He served on various commissions under Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and culminating with President Carter's appointment to the U.S. Metric Board. He is currently a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association and the Society for Human Resource Management. His many lectures include: Notre Dame University, the U.S. Naval Academy, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the U.S. Senior Executive Service.