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Early: A Teamster Apart: Ron Carey Remembered
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Steve Early
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The rise and fall of Teamster reformer Ron Carey, who died December 11, is still a much contested tale. His political demise, a decade ago, was a tragedy for some and a case of hypocrisy punished to others. In the demonology of current Teamster le...
Early: From Nicky Pockets to Blago
Znet Article, December, 16 2008
Steve Early
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Reading about the involvement of SEIU International vice-president Tom Balanoff in wire-tapped conversations leading to the arrest of Rod Blagojevich on Dec. 9, I was struck by a related headline in last Friday's N.Y. Times: “Union Is Caught Up ...
Early: Is Obama Backing Off a Crucial Pledge to Labor?
Znet Article, December, 08 2008
Steve Early
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It’s only been a month since hundreds of thousands of union members and their families helped Barack Obama win key “battleground states.†Yet, already, some labor supporters of the president-elect fear he may be backing away from a key camp...
Early: Beyond the Fields
Zmag Article, December, 01 2008
Steve Early
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Steve Early reviews a new book on the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez, Beyond the Fields by Randy Shaw.
Early: Puerto Rico's Teachers Show the Way
Znet Article, October, 24 2008
Steve Early
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In the view of SEIU and Acevedo Vila, teachers needed a new SEIU-affiliated union because FMPR no longer had legal recognition after its walk-out over wages, classroom size, and the threat of privatization.
Early: Why It's Time to Bannish "Average Joeism"
Znet Article, October, 17 2008
Steve Early
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Am I the only American voter who’s getting annoyed by all the faux-populist obeisance and condescending lip-service that’s being paid to “average Joes” this Fall?
Early: EFCA, The Economy, Obama and Labor?
Znet Article, October, 11 2008
Steve Early
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Thirty years ago, unions came closer to strengthening the Wagner Act than at any other time since Congress enacted labor’s “Magna Carta” in 1935...
Early: For Retired Stern Critic, UHW Take-Over Bid Is Déjà Vu…All Over Again
Znet Article, September, 25 2008
Steve Early
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The tireless members of United Healthcare Workers (UHW) will be on the march again this weekend, in what’s likely to be one the largest anti-trusteeship protests in U.S. labor history. Thousands of rank-and-filers will tell Service Employees Inter...
Early: Tyronegate & Trusteeship
Znet Article, September, 04 2008
Steve Early
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Thousands of SEIU members are expected in San Jose this Saturday, Sept. 6, to protest spreading corruption—and Andy Stern’s latest grab for control over SEIU’s third largest local (which has helped blow the whistle on scandalous behavior elsewher...
Early: Will Call Center Servicing Solve Labor's "Customer Satisfaction" Problems?
Znet Article, August, 04 2008
Steve Early
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In early June, I found myself in San Juan, Puerto Rico, awaiting a vote by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) about whether to expand its current experiment with call center servicing....
Early: The Crisis In Organized Labor—As Viewed From The Inside and Out
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Steve Early
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Although he looks old and tired today, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney was once hailed as a dynamic reformer, with a sharp eye for new talent. One of the first things he did, after getting elected in 1995, was appoint former Sixties’ radicals to be...
Early: At San Juan Convention…
Znet Article, June, 04 2008
Steve Early
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Operating with its usual purple panache, controversial political ties, and a huge advertising budget, America’s most "Latino-friendly" union is romancing all of Puerto Rico this week.
Early: SEIU Condemnation of Dissidents Has Long History In Labor
Znet Article, May, 26 2008
Steve Early
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As history has repeatedly shown, the rulers of “one party states” rarely concede power gracefully or quietly. When organized opposition emerges, such regimes often resort to a strategy of disinformation and intimidation to maintain their grip on p...
Early: Teamsters & Taxi Drivers
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Steve Early
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In the late 1990s, it looked, for a while, like organized labor was making a comeback...
Furst: U.S. Newsroom Woes Shape
Znet Article, April, 19 2008
Randy Furst
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Across the country, many readers are picking up their local newspapers to discover with dismay that some of their favorite writers have disappeared from the news pages.
Early: The Purple Punch-Out In Dearborn:
Znet Article, April, 17 2008
Steve Early
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One of the problems with labor brawls is that they all look very much alike. And none of them are pretty, even when the punches are thrown by strikers heroically defending their picket lines against cops or scabs.
Early: A Purple Uprising In Oakland
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Steve Early
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As an infrequent visitor to the west coast, I’ve never experienced the earthquake tremors that are so familiar to millions of Californians.
Early: Remaking Labor - From The Top-Down? Bottom-Up? or Both?
Znet Article, February, 24 2008
Steve Early
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Review of two labor strategy books...
Early: Review: On the Global Waterfront
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Steve Early
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Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger’s On The Global Waterfront is a detailed study of the fight to save five ILA members from politically-motivated felony charges. The prosecution of the Charleston 5—four blacks and one white accused of rioting—co...
Early: A Presidential Year Confession - & Prayer
Znet Article, December, 24 2007
Steve Early
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While millions of other Americans have somehow managed to minimize the impact of the 2008 presidential election campaign on their collective consciousness, the candidates from both parties have had a transformative effect on me. They've made me a ...
