Turn your union website into a union bookshop

Do you think it's important that trade union activists read books that make them more effective?

I do.

That's why LabourStart has been promoting union books to union members for more than a decade.

We work very closely with Union Communication Services (UCS), who've been in the business of publishing and selling books for trade unionists for a long time now.

Together with UCS we've been able to promote sales of such wonderful titles as Economics for Everyone by Jim Stanford and Why Unions Matter by Michael D. Yates. We've helped sell some of the books UCS itself publishes, including the best-selling Union Stewards' Complete Guide and Union Strategies for Hard Times.

Every time we sell a book, we make a little bit of money for LabourStart which helps keep us going.

And now, you can do the same for your union or campaigning organization.

Check out the UCS affiliate program which we're now helping to promote:

http://www.labourstart.org/ucsaffiliate.shtml

By signing up and choosing books to sell, you'll help educate your activists and members -- and you'll make some money for your union or organization.

Every branch and local union, and every national union, should sign up and promote the sales of A Troublemakers Handbook, Embedded with Organized Labor, the Union Members Guide and many more fantastic titles.

Visit the online catalogue at UCS's website to see all the books they make available to union members.

If you don't maintain a union website yourself, share this message with someone who does. Encourage your local, regional and national union websites to sign up.

Remember that UCS ships around the world -- and unions anywhere in the world can sign up as affiliates. It costs you nothing to do so, and you will earn money every time you sell a book.

I hope you'll agree with me that this is something that every union should be involved in and that we should all do our bit to promote sales of union books.

Thanks very much.

Eric Lee