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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
Steve Early
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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: Reading, Writing, and Union-Building
Znet Article, March, 30 2009
Steve Early
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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: Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz
Znet Article, January, 03 2006
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Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, student...
