CASE LINK: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/CaseDocs/Maine%20Lobstering%20Union.Kochan.Final.pdf

CASE STUDY TITLE: "Lobster 207": How Self-Employed Workers Found their Voice and Improved their Livelihoods through the Maine Lobstering Union

CASE QUESTION:

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING BASE IN THE CASE STUDY

1. How should the lessons learned be communicated within the larger Machinist organization and across the labor movement?

2.What unique political, financial, and social capabilities did the Machinist bring in this unusual context?

3. What tensions arose and how were challenges overcome?

4.Was this strategy replicable in other geographies or industries and, if so what should be done differently?

5. In what ways did self-employed and independent workers, as well as organized labor as a whole, benefit from the outcome of Lobster 207's experience?