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- Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013
- Steve Early: My Life As A Caddy
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  An 18-hole crash course in race and class
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- Tuesday, May 07, 2013
- Steve Early: Militant Minority Grows
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  NUHW-CNA organizers believe they have made great progress
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- Saturday, Apr 13, 2013
- Steve Early: The Big Do-Over at Kaiser
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  Which way will 45,000 California healthcare workers swing? The answer has major implications for labor
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- Friday, Mar 15, 2013
- Rand Wilson/Steve Early: Time For Just Cause?
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  A “just cause” campaign could potentially engage working people at multiple levels
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- Thursday, Feb 28, 2013
- Steve Early: Wary About “Wellness”
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  American workers who don’t want their boss playing “wellness cop” need both short-term legal protection and a longer-term political solution
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- Friday, Feb 08, 2013
- Steve Early/Suzanne Gordon: On Our Own or All Together?
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  The troublesome question of aging
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- Thursday, Jan 17, 2013
- Steve Early: Going Global at T-Mobile
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  It takes years of bottom-up organizing to make a difference
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- Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012
- Steve Early: Bidding Adieu to SEIU
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  A review of Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting For the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey with Bob Ostertag
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- Saturday, Nov 10, 2012
- Steve Early: In Bed With Big Soda
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  Unions will continue to face pressure from major employers—including Pepsi Cola and leading California health care chains—to make medical plan changes that penalize their own members
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- Saturday, Nov 03, 2012
- Steve Early: A Voice From The Shop Floor
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  Review of Greg Shotwell's Autoworkers Under The Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream
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- Saturday, Aug 25, 2012
- Steve Early: Putting Out The Fire?
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  Review of Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq
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- Thursday, Aug 23, 2012
- Steve Early: Bargain to Organize
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  One sign, among many, of labor's current travails is the stalled union growth strategy known as Bargain to Organize
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- Thursday, Aug 16, 2012
- Steve Early: Organizing at a Weapons Plant
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  Jean Alonso’s book, The Patriots, deals very well with the complexities of union politics and shop-floor life at a company that continues to be a major Pentagon supplier
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- Saturday, Aug 11, 2012
- Steve Early: Tale of A Newspaper Strike
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  Review of The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor, by Chris Rhomberg
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- Thursday, Jul 19, 2012
- Steve Early: A Red Dawn Over Durham?
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  If Miliband isn’t willing to pander, Obama-style, to a pro-union crowd—by applauding collective bargaining–he’s certainly not going to make strengthening unions a post-election priority
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- Saturday, Jun 23, 2012
- Steve Early: The Trojan Horse in Montpelier
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  Can SEIU help Vermonters win single payer?
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- Friday, Jun 15, 2012
- Steve Early: AFSCME Shake-Up?
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  The rollback of collective bargaining gains and, in Wisconsin, the virtual elimination of bargaining, has given activists a sense of urgency about shaking up leadership
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- Wednesday, May 09, 2012
- Steve Early: Into the Fray
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  The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics
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- Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012
- Steve Early/Rand Wilson: Union Survival Strategies
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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
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- Sunday, Mar 25, 2012
- Steve Early: The IBT on Reality TV
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  A new television series will “focus on the lives and struggles of members of Teamsters Local 25”
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- Friday, Feb 10, 2012
- Steve Early: Sometimes A Great Notion
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  Local union reformers run for national union office
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- Thursday, Feb 02, 2012
- Steve Early: Three Kaiser Unions Walk Out
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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
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- Friday, Jan 27, 2012
- Steve Early: The Mother of All Union Trusteeships
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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
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- Thursday, Jan 12, 2012
- Steve Early: The Cry for “Bread & Roses” Still Resonates
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  The strike that started on January 12, 1912 created political tremors far beyond the Merrimack Valley
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- Friday, Nov 25, 2011
- Steve Early: Partnering or Whistle-Blowing?
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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
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- Thursday, Nov 17, 2011
- Steve Early: A Lesson for Labor from OWS
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  Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has given our timorous, unimaginative, and politically ambivalent unions a much-needed ideological dope slap
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- Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011
- Michael d. Yates/Farooque Chowdhury/Steve Early/Jon Flanders/Stephanie Luce/Jim Straub: OWS and U.S. Labor
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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
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- Saturday, Oct 15, 2011
- Steve Early: Whither Change to Win?
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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
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- Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011
- Steve Early: Temporary Truce at Verizon
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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
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- Friday, Aug 12, 2011
- Steve Early: Obama's Gift to Verizon
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  The largest private sector work stoppage in the last seven years
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Steve Early was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications... more

Steve Early was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years. Prior to working for CWA, he served as a headquarters staffer for the United Mine Workers and staff attorney and newspaper editor for the Professional Drivers Council (merged in 1979 into Teamsters for a Democratic Union).

As a free-lance labor journalist, he has written for The Nation, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail, The Berkshire Eagle, The Progressive, The Guardian, In These Times, Our Times, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Labor History, New Politics, New Labor Forum, Social Policy, Labor Notes, Labor, WorkingUSA, Labor Research Review, Monthly Labor Review, Technology Review, Boston Review, Dollars and Sense, Socialism and Democracy, The Guild Reporter, and Tikkun.

A collection of Early's "participatory labor journalism" was published in May, 2009, by Monthly Review Press. It's called Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home. (www.monthlyreview.org)

Alone or with co-authors, Early has also contributed chapters to seven edited collections. Among these is an often-cited essay, "Membership Based Organizing," in A New Labor Movement For The New Century, edited by Gregory Mantsios (Monthly Review Press, 1998); "Globalization and De-Unionization in Telecommunications: Three Case Studies in Resistance" (co-authored with Larry Cohen) in Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions, edited by Michael Gordon and Lowell Turner (Cornell University Press, 2000); "The NYNEX Strike: A Case Study in Labor-Management Conflict Over Health Care Cost Shifting," in Proceedings of NYU Annual National Conference on Labor (Little, Brown &Co., 1991); "Defending Workers' Rights in the Global Economy: The CWA Experience" (co-authored with Larry Cohen) in Which Direction For Organized Labor? edited by Bruce Nissen (Wayne State University Press, 1999) and also reprinted in "Le Syndicalisme Dans La Mondialisation," edited by Annie Fouquet, Udo Rehfeldt, and Serge Le Roux (Les Editions de L'Atelier, Paris, 2000);, "Strike Lessons From The Last Twenty-Five Years" in The Encyclopedia of Strikes," edited by Ben Day, Manny Ness, and Aaron Brenner ( M.E. Sharpe, Inc., April, 2009); and "The Enduring Legacy & Contemporary Relevance of Labor Insurgency," in Rebel Rank-and-File: Labor Militancy and Revolt From Below During the 1970s, edited by Cal Winslow, Aaron Brenner, and Bob Brenner (forthcoming from Verso in 2009).

Early is currently working on a book for Cornell University Press on the role of Sixties' movement activists in American labor over the last four decades.

Early served for many years on the steering committee of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and is a member of the editorial advisory committees for three independent labor publications--Labor Notes, New Labor Forum, and WorkingUSA. He has been a frequent workshop or panel speaker at the annual Socialist Scholars (now Left Forum) Conferences in N.Y.C. and has taught classes for trade unionists at the Harvard Trade Union Program, Cornell ILR Extension Program, the George Meany Center, Penn State, and the Universities of Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut. He belongs to the National Writers Union/UAW and the United Association For Labor Education. Early is also a longtime supporter of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and the Association for Union Democracy.

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