Books
REACHING COMMON GROUND:
A Comprehensive Guide to Conflict Resolution
We have become overwhelmingly adversarial and confrontational, with consequences not only in our ability to solve problems, but also in our personal relationships. Today’s most contentious issues are framed as us-versus-them identity-based conflicts: men against women, blacks against whites, citizens against immigrants, and liberals against conservatives.
Labeling and name-calling are used to stifle dissenting opinions. Reaching Common Ground will teach you how to communicate effectively with people from different cultures and backgrounds and provide effective methods for resolving conflicts despite differences in core values, gender, race, religion, culture, national origin, age, sexual orientation, economic status, and power imbalances. Reaching Common Ground will teach you how turn confrontation into dialogue, dialogue into understanding, and understanding into the effective resolution of conflicts.
Uncivil Rights: A Guide to Workers Rights
This book provides practical advice and heads-up warnings about the pitfalls of the court system. What are your rights at work? How can you resolve workplace disputes, and keep your job and your sanity? What resources are available for workers? What if you decide to sue your employer? What can you expect? The book answers these questions and more. Any worker will benefit from the author’s ability to explain complex legal problems in simple to understand language.
Critical Praise for Uncivil Rights:
“Uncivil Rights gives you the skills and confidence so that individually at least you can stop the company from pushing you around and getting away with it.”--Ralph Nader
"An excellent guide to understanding and protecting your job rights."-Nadine Strossen, Former President, American Civil Liberties Union
"Uncivil Rights tells it like it is. Congratulations to Fred Golder for exposing the bitter grim truth concerning employee rights litigation...."--Paul H. Tobias, Chair of the National Employee Rights Institute
Labor and Employment Law: Compliance and Litigation
This two volume set provides information about significant labor and employment issues for attorneys and HR professionals with expert guidance for dealing with the most common problems, based on cases and actual experience. Topics include:
Employment at will
Employment discrimination
Rights and remedies
Unions and management
Discussions of OSHA and ERISA litigation
Grievances and arbitration
Wage and hour law
When God Looked Down and Wept
Out of the millions that were imprisoned and perished in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, Benjamin survived the Mauthausen sub-camp at Melk and the hellish nightmare that was Gunskirchen.
Benjamin immigrated to the United States and became a respected public school teacher. So imagine his horror when, one day, he was unceremoniously fired for being “Too Jewish.” When Lenny Zakim asked me if I would represent Benjamin in a claim for religious discrimination, initially I refused. I was too busy to take on another pro bono case. Lenny was very persistent. He did not take no for an answer. Lenny finally convinced me that this was a pro bono case that I had to take. When Lenny told me that Benjamin was terminated because he was “too Jewish,” I was hooked. I told Lenny, “In this country, if you want, you can be too Jewish.”
During meetings for the purpose of putting together a lawsuit, Benjamin slowly and painfully related the details of his ordeal to me “When God Looked Down and Wept” is the result. This book is a true historical account of one man’s physical and spiritual endurance as well as his battle against discrimination and for the First Amendment right to freedom of religious expression in an American court.