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Early: Out of the Margins, Into the Fray
Znet Article, May, 09 2012
Steve Early
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The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics
Early: Back to the Future: Union Survival Strategies in Open Shop America
Znet Article, April, 17 2012
Steve Early
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In Wisconsin and elsewhere, labor's recent defensive battles demonstrate that a new model of union functioning is not only possible but necessary for survival
Early: The IBT on Reality TV
Znet Article, March, 25 2012
Steve Early
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A new television series will “focus on the lives and struggles of members of Teamsters Local 25”
Early: Sometimes A Great Notion: Local Union Reformers Run For National Union Office
Znet Article, February, 10 2012
Steve Early
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Local union reformers run for national union office
Early: Three Kaiser Unions Walk Out Again in California, while SEIU Stays Put
Znet Article, February, 02 2012
Steve Early
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The continuing struggle over which path to take at Kaiser—resistance to concessions or the non-adversarial approach embraced by SEIU—will intensify in the months to come
Early: The Mother of All Union Trusteeships--Three Years Later
Znet Article, January, 27 2012
Steve Early
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Three years ago this Friday (Jan. 27), Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern declared war on one-quarter of his California membership
Early: Partnering or Whistle-Blowing?
Znet Article, November, 25 2011
Steve Early
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Workers’ willingness to link their own contract fights to broader public concerns about the cost and quality of patient care may prove to be the better prescription for resisting concessions and reviving unions
Early: Good-Bye to the “Middle-Class”? A Lesson for Labor from Occupy Wall Street
Znet Article, November, 17 2011
Steve Early
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has given our timorous, unimaginative, and politically ambivalent unions a much-needed ideological dope slap
Yates: The Occupy Wall Street Uprising and the U.S. Labor Movement
Znet Article, November, 16 2011
Michael d. Yates
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Workers are the 99 percent, and their organization as workers within the OWS framework could help to transform an uprising into a movement
Early: Whither Change to Win?
Znet Article, October, 15 2011
Steve Early
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Change to Win was a mixed bag at best, more mirage than real, and hardly the second coming of the CIO
Early: Big Organizing Challenge Remains after Temporary Truce at Verizon
Znet Article, August, 23 2011
Steve Early
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The continuing failure to unionize more than 80,000 workers at VZW and other non-union subsidiaries is the Achilles heel of organized labor at Verizon
Early: The Poison Pill in PPACA Used to Extract Concessions from Labor
Znet Article, August, 12 2011
Steve Early
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The largest private sector work stoppage in the last seven years
Early: Verizon Showdown Calls for New Strike Tactics
Znet Article, August, 05 2011
Steve Early
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More than 90 percent of the workers polled by CWA and IBEW in recent weeks have voted to authorize a strike
Early: Judge Orders Rematch between SEIU and NUHW
Znet Article, July, 25 2011
Steve Early
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"Since the election, SEIU pulled out almost all of its staff and support, leaving individual workers to fend for themselves"
Early: Insurgent Pope Nominated for Teamsters President
Znet Article, July, 03 2011
Steve Early
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“We used to have 2.2 million members. Now we’re down to 1.3 million Teamsters and these assholes are bragging about it?”
Early: New Driver for the Teamsters
Znet Article, June, 29 2011
Steve Early
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Sandy Pope is a most unusual candidate to succeed James P. Hoffa, the current Teamster president
Early: The Bipartisan Assault on Home-based Caregivers
Znet Article, April, 29 2011
Steve Early
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Building real organization among home-based workers is more critical than ever before
Early: Kaiser and SEIU Flouted NLRB Rules
Znet Article, April, 08 2011
Steve Early
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Testimony from the hearing makes it clear that Kaiser turned its unlawful acts of February 2010 into official policy for the conduct of the next, much larger, election.
Early: Kaiser and SEIU Flouted NLRB Rules
Znet Article, April, 08 2011
Steve Early
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Testimony from the hearing makes it clear that Kaiser turned its unlawful acts of February 2010 into official policy for the conduct of the next, much larger, election.
Early: Kaiser and SEIU Flouted NLRB Rules
Znet Article, April, 08 2011
Steve Early
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Testimony from the hearing makes it clear that Kaiser turned its unlawful acts of February 2010 into official policy for the conduct of the next, much larger, election.
Early: TDU in Chicago
Znet Article, November, 14 2010
Steve Early
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--During the 1970s, a small slice of the trade union left was able to tap into working class discontent and workplace militancy in a very enduring way.
Early: This Labor Day, Let’s Salute All Union Stewards—and Their Cutting Edge in California
Znet Article, August, 24 2010
Steve Early
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The real heroes of what’s left of the labor movement are not people with full-time union jobs, union-furnished cars and credit cards, and union benefits that dues-paying members don’t get anymore.
Early: SEIU Buys its Own Version of History
Znet Article, July, 08 2010
Steve Early
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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
Steve Early
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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
Steve Early
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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
Steve Early
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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: SEIUs Mega-Local Meltdown: Size Matters, But Members Matter More
Znet Article, March, 06 2010
Steve Early
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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
Steve Early
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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...
