Confessions of a Union Buster

by Marty Levitt and Martin Jay Levitt

Book Overview

A former union buster exposes the dirty tricks that elevated him to the top of his profession and that have transformed the war on organized labor into a billion-dollars-per-year industry. This book is the story of a man who has decided to come in out of the cold, to clear his conscience, and to share the hard lessons he has learned. Line drawings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517583305
• ISBN13: 9780517583302
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Defeat your companies anti-union plan!

Marty is an extrordinary man who, not only through this book, is helping workers gain the right to better working conditions and benefits.In Las Vegas we are organizing all the Wal-Mart's and Sam's Club's and recently my Sam's Club was the first one in quite some time to petition for an entire store election.Marty volunteered his time to talk with us about what the company would do (which they did) and how to counter it. His book is full of his exploits as a 'union buster' and the damage he created. For anyone who believes that their company is trying to 'educate' them about unions should first read this book. Bottom line: If you want to know how far corporate America wants to restrict their employees rights under Federal law to have a Union, read this book.

Well-written and astute

A well-written and comprehensive account of a labor relations consultant's misdeeds. Catalogues with many accute psychological observations the harm many managers and labor relations consultants cause workers through wrong actions--often, he confesses, willfully. Also, the personal experience of holding a destructive job and the accompanying mechanisms denial are important to understand, both in this book and in all our lives as workers, consultants, or managers. In his career, Levitt's cycle of destructive work was linked with alcoholism and compensatory over-spending, and the authors make it clear that the personal psychological knots of consultants and managers perpetuate their wrong actions and livelihoods. This narration is heartrending and sickening, but is a vital call to examination of the labor crimes in this country and of personal responsibility for suffering.

He brought the phantom into clearer view. Thank you!

We have been going through a very nasty union compain at Pikeville Methodist Hospital, Pikeville, Ky. I felt as though I was fighting a ghost or something. Now I know just who we are fighting and what they will do to stop us from getting a fair contract. This book brought tears to my eyes. Everything in this book is happening right now here in Pikeville. Employees are turning against each other, security guards are all around, we are now behind fences, and some are just plain beaten down. At least now, with this book, I know we are not the only people to go through this. I would love for Mr. Levitt to come here and speak. I know he could help. I have been trying to get everyone to read this book.I am ever so glad I did. I only wish I had read it sooner. We have been in negotiations for over a year and now they have gotten a decert vote pending for the RN's. Keep us all in your prayers. This book was the best source of information I have ever found. Again, Thank you Mr. Levitt for getting out of that nasty business. At least there is 1 less to deal with.

A Must-Read for all Employees and Organizers

Sun Tzu wrote "know yourself and your enemy, and you need not fear a hundred battles"...Accepting this advice is vital to the success of any organizer's undertaking! In this era of corporate culture, where 80's greed has merely cloaked itself in feel-good advertising while waging war against its employees, the robber barons at the top will do anything to maintain their power. In that "war", the worker is not only expendable, but is seen an an enemy to be made an example of--crushed and discarded in front of co-workers! It is in every worker's best interest to read this book --even if you are not in a union, or a unionizing effort. Taking charge of your rights as an employee does not mean you are a militant communist--but that is what they would like you to think! READ THIS BOOK! Know the ploys of those who hold the power--for they definitely make it their business to know OUR fears.

Superb! Should be read by everyone who works for a living.

An incredible revelation of what goes on behind the scenes to destroy worker rights. A great read that cannot be put down once started. Compelling, provocative, and riveting. I have never read a better book!