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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: 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 ...
Early: Rural America Is Being Left off the Information Superhighway
Znet Article, May, 20 2007
Steve Early
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Rural America Is Being Left off the Information Superhighway
Early: Tearing Down The Wall At UPS, Smithfield, and Verizon?
Znet Article, April, 27 2007
Steve Early
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Tearing Down The Wall At UPS, Smithfield, and Verizon?
Early: Verizon Workers Fight Rural Telecom Redlining In New England
Znet Article, February, 23 2007
Steve Early
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Verizon Workers Fight Rural Telecom Redlining In New England
Early: "New" Agenda For America Hasn't Improved With Age
Znet Article, December, 21 2006
Steve Early
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track, by Andy Stern, (...
Early: Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz
Znet Article, January, 03 2006
Steve Early
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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...
Early: Union Building In The Global Village
Znet Article, October, 04 2004
Steve Early
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As American labor began gearing up for the 2004 election, many activists joined high-profile protests a year ago against free trade, mistreatment of immigrants, and the erosion of union organizing rights. The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride was th...
