Out of the Ashes: The Steelworkers’ Global Campaign at Bridgestone/Firestone

Tom Juravich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University

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Juravich, T., & Bronfenbrenner, K. (2001). Out of the ashes: The Steelworkers’ global campaign at Bridgestone/Firestone [Electronic version]. In W. N. Cooke (Ed.), Multinational companies and global human resource strategies (pp. 249-267). Westport, CT: Quorum Books.
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/38

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Multinational Companies and Global Human Resource Strategies, edited by William N. Cooke. Copyright © 2003 by William N. Cooke. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.

Abstract

[Excerpt] The purpose of this chapter is to examine how unions and their allies can build global networks in the face of multinational company (MNC) efforts to deny workers their rights to representation and destroy the very unions that represent them. In particular, we examine the strike and the global contract campaign organized by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) against the Japanese-owned Bridgestone/Firestone company.