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Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Early: Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea

Znet Article, October, 23 2009 Steve Early
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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).

Znet Article 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).

Znet Article Early: The Situational Ethics of Union Raiding

Znet Article, September, 19 2009 Steve Early
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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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article Early: Another Hail Mary Pass From Labor’s Latest Quarterback?

Znet Article, September, 13 2009 Steve Early
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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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Early: Why Labor Doesn't Need a "House of Lords"

Znet Article, March, 12 2009 Steve Early
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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 “...

Znet Article Early: Employee Free Choice at Work

Znet Article, February, 03 2009 Steve Early
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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 ...

Znet Article Early: And Who Decides the Fate of UHW?

Znet Article, January, 05 2009 Steve Early
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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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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?

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