Advocacy: Establishment of Rights - Paperback

by Doc Dengenis (Author)

Advocacy Establishment of Rights explains the important foundations with a general overview of advocacy, including unionism. The 35 cases, exercises, scenarios, and problems are worth the price of the book. The Book is a result of 31 years of successful advocacy, grievance adjudication, arbitration, organizing, and training experiences. This is a valuable resource document for all advocates, regardless of experience. Readers will have the opportunity to develop advocacy skills, techniques, tactics, strategies in a wide variety of exercises, cases, scenarios, and problems while role playing with a final advocacy role play simulation. The emphasis is on developing advocacy, exploring rights to representation, members' rights and responsibilities, Duty of Fair Representation, Due Process Safeguards, questioning strategies, verbal skills, Just Cause, Weingarten Rules, insubordination, Past Practice Concepts and Uses, Association Code of Conduct, guidelines for administrative meetings, grievance fundamentals and processing, and hostile work environment.

Author Biography

Doc Dengenis was a successful labor advocate representing K-16 educators and classified in Washington State, Michigan, California, and Oregon. He has successful grievance adjudication and arbitration experience involving several compliocated and cpmplex cases. His training programs are well known and well received in the sattes he represented education employees. Recently, he wrote, self published, and successfully marketed "Bargaining Essentials" and "Collaborative Bargaining."