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Early: SEIU Buys its Own Version of History
Znet Article, July, 08 2010
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In the last five years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has gone from being a media darling to generating more bad press for itself than any other labor organization. Some of SEIU’s negative publicity is a product of right-wing un...
Early: Calif. Union Rebels Demand Biggest Labor Board Vote In Seven Decades
Znet Article, July, 02 2010
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As a longtime helper of labor organizing drives on the east coast—the largest of which involved 10,000 fewer workers in a public sector campaign thirty years ago—my hat is off to the formidable rank-and-file team that’s re-building unionism at Kai...
Early: Mary Kay Henry and Smoke Signals From the Purple Vatican
Znet Article, May, 03 2010
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In a video message to members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) earlier this month, their longtime president, Andy Stern, tried to assuage any popular grief about his forthcoming retirement. He quoted from a Dr. Seuss story he of...
Early: Who's Going to Pay the Tab Left Behind by Andy Stern?
Znet Article, April, 17 2010
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Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern was always a fan of the blogosphere. So it was quite fitting that news of his imminent departure from SEIU first appeared, earlier this week, on several blogs. Andy bid SEIU members...
Early: The NUHW 16
Commentary, April, 13 2010
Steve Early
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Legal lynching, actual or attempted, has been a longtime threat to union organizing. When workers first tried to form unions, they found themselves charged with conspiracy. For nearly a century, employer attempts to crush their "illegal combinat...
Early: SEIUs Mega-Local Meltdown: Size Matters, But Members Matter More
Znet Article, March, 06 2010
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Nearly one year after Massachusetts local makeover, California follows suit
Early: "The End of Labor Law Reform for Another Generation?"
Znet Article, February, 01 2010
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Scott Brown’s January 19 defeat of Martha Coakley in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat has been greeted as a “game changer†for Barack Obama and his political backers. This GOP victory has deprived Democrats of their “filibuster...
Early: Green Mountain Mustering for the War at Home or Abroad?
Znet Article, December, 18 2009
Steve Early
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Earlier this month, the "People's Republic of Burlington" had a busy weekend mustering its “troops†for active duty on several fronts, one at home and the other abroad.
Early: The Progressive Quandary About SEIU
Znet Article, December, 14 2009
Steve Early
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The terrain of "progressive labor" in the U.S. has shifted dramatically in recent years. The two-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU)--long associated with the remaking of labor as a force for social justice--has become embr...
Early: Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea
Znet Article, October, 23 2009
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Twenty years ago, 60,000 workers from New York City to Maine rallied against healthcare cost-shifting at the telecom giant then known as NYNEX (since "rebranded" as Verizon).
Early: SEIU Civil War Puts “Partnership†In New Light
Znet Article, October, 08 2009
Steve Early
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Review of: Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente, by Tom Kochan, Robert McKersie, Adrienne Eaton, and Paul Adler (Cornell ILR Press, 2009).
Early: The Situational Ethics of Union Raiding
Znet Article, September, 19 2009
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No subject arouses the passion of labor officials more than raiding. In his blustery maiden address as president of the AFL-CIO, Rich Trumka won thunderous applause this week at the federation's convention in Pittsburgh by announcing that anyone d...
Early: Specter In Pittsburgh: Punishment and Reward at AFL-CIO Convention
Znet Article, September, 16 2009
Steve Early
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When the history of the bi-partisan undermining of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is finally written, Pennsylvania Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter will be assigned a pivotal role.
Early: Another Hail Mary Pass From Labor’s Latest Quarterback?
Znet Article, September, 13 2009
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Hope for a revived union movement has come in successive waves in recent decades, only to recede over time. When the national AFL-CIO meets next week in Pittsburgh to choose new officers, the fans in the stands will be cheering the latest change i...
Early: Kennedy's Sins Against Labor
Znet Article, August, 28 2009
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I was raised, like most Irish-Catholics, not to speak ill of the dead—at least while the wake is still underway. Of course, the affliction known as “Irish Alzheimers†exerts a powerful tug in the opposite direction. Forgetting everything exc...
Early: A Postcard From Vermont: Sanders Shows Congress How To Avoid
Commentary, August, 19 2009
Steve Early
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Richmond, Vt.-The Green Mountain state used to be a good place for retired union guys to get away from it all in August. Now, thanks to "Obamacare"-with its threats to the elderly everywhere--that's not the case this year.
Early: Reading, Writing, and Union-Building
Znet Article, March, 30 2009
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As more trade unionists joined labor historians, sociologists, industrial relations experts and worker educators in a wide-ranging debate about new strategies for labor, additional books have appeared which highlight model campaigns. On my bookshe...
Early: Why Labor Doesn't Need a "House of Lords"
Znet Article, March, 12 2009
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In a story datelined “Miami Beach,†which appeared the day before the one quoted above, The Times reported that some members of the AFL-CIO executive council, not to mention its once reform-minded president, John Sweeney, were experiencing “...
Early: Employee Free Choice at Work
Znet Article, February, 03 2009
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) wants its members to believe that their union is just like the alluring but ultimately nightmarish hostelry immortalized by The Eagles. It’s a place of permanent imprisonment only "programmed to ...
Early: And Who Decides the Fate of UHW?
Znet Article, January, 05 2009
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Among the actions the SEIU International Executive Board (IEB) may take is transferring 65,000 long-term care workers in California, against their will, from UHW into a new statewide entity with officers appointed by SEIU President Andy Stern. Eit...
