Tools to Confront Power with Power

Dear Brothers & Sisters:

In my years as a labor strategist and organizer, I have been involved in some of the biggest and hardest fought battles in recent labor history. During this time, it has become clear that businesses and governments are attacking workers with more and more sophisticated ammunition.

In the 1930's, unions faced hired goons armed with guns and clubs. These days, unions face an army of anti-union professionals in three-piece suits and armed with briefcases. Lawyers, "management consultants," public relations firms, and scab labor outfits are today's hired goons. Union-busting is a multi-billion dollar industry — and unions need powerful tools to fight back.

In 1981, Corporate Campaign, Inc. was founded to provide labor with new tools and strategies to combat this new wave of union-busting. The name Corporate Campaign derives from the strategy I created in the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union's successful campaign against southern textile giant J.P. Stevens — a strategy that is widely imitated in the labor movement.

Since its founding, CCI has been widely recognized as the nation's leading labor strategist. In the words of Farm Labor Organizing Committee President Baldemar Velasquez, "CCI has caused a revolution in how labor fights its wars."

CCI is best known for building national campaigns for underdog unions pitted against giant corporations. However, CCI also provides a full range of services tailored to the specific needs of individual unions, including: research & strategy development, media & public relations, direct mail, and organizing.

As a union organizer in the 1970's, I often wished for the kind of support that CCI provides. The CCI staff offers skills and experience that used to be available only to management. As Dave Watts, President of UPIU Local 7837, put it, "CCI has been a potent, faithful ally to this local. I'm sure glad they're on our side."

The past three decades have been especially tough for workers. Jobs have been lost, wages and benefits have been cut, and families and communities are suffering from corporate greed with government complicity. Even with a more union-friendly administration, it will still be up to workers and their unions to find effective ways to meet these challenges.

CCI is committed to help in that struggle for a better future. Please take a few moments to read about the support we can offer. Then give me a call (718 852-2808) and see if we can help your union.

Although Corporate Campaign, Inc. is widely recognized for its commitment to workers and their unions, it has also provided important support to many other organizations and causes, including environmental organziations fighting to keep the oil companies out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and saving the nation's largest free-speech, non-commercial radio network, Pacifica, from a corporate takeover.

In solidarity,

Director