All 33 articles by Steve Early

• 09 Apr 13

• Features

  The Big Do-Over at Kaiser

  Which way will 45,000 California healthcare workers swing? The answer has major implications for labor. MORE »

• 03 Jan 13

• Working

  CNA and NUHW Join Forces Against SEIU in California

  Today, the California Nurses Association (CNA) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) announced a formal affiliation,... MORE »

• 21 Aug 12

• Working

  Bargain to Organize: From Boon to Embarrassment

  One sign, among many, of labor's current travails is the stalled union growth strategy known as "Bargain... MORE »

• 24 May 12

• Features

  Torie Osborn Crashes the Party

  The spirited California Assembly candidate battles the Democratic establishment. MORE »

• 03 May 12

• Features

  Out of the Margins, Into the Fray

  The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics. MORE »

• 22 Mar 12

• Working

  The IBT on Reality TV: Boston Union Teams Up With Mark Wahlberg

  A Teamsters entourage in the town near Mystic River?   BOSTON—From Jersey Shore to the short-lived... MORE »

• 10 Jan 12

• Working

  100 Years After Lawrence Strike, the Cry for ‘Bread & Roses’ Still Resonates

  LAWRENCE, MASS.--One hundred years ago this month, thousands of angry textile workers abandoned their looms and poured... MORE »

• 13 Dec 11

• Working

  End of the Newt & Andy Show? Breaking Up Is So Hard…

  [A]fter an hour with Gingrich, I was more than pleasantly surprised by his thoughtfulness and candor…... MORE »

• 29 Nov 11

• Working

  A ‘Stewards Army’ Uprising Brings Regime Change to CWA Local 1101

  'Rebuild' slate takes over in NYC, after years of corrupt mismanagement My first contact with union reformers in... MORE »

• 15 Nov 11

• Working

  Goodbye to the ‘Middle Class’? A Lesson for Labor From Occupy Wall Street

  Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has given our timorous, unimaginative and politically ambivalent unions a much-needed ideological dope slap.... MORE »

• 10 Oct 11

• Working

  Whither Change to Win?

  The much-heralded breakaway labor federation now calls itself a "strategic organizing center" Most six-year-olds like to have a... MORE »

• 02 Aug 11

• Working

  Verizon Showdown Calls for New Strike Tactics

  The culture of “no contract, no work” is almost extinct in the United States, where strike... MORE »

• 21 Jul 11

• Working

  Kaiser Election Results KOed: Judge Orders Rematch Between SEIU and NUHW

  When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) defeated the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in balloting among 43,000... MORE »

• 01 Jul 11

• Working

  Insurgent Sandy Pope Nominated for Teamster Presidency

  At the Teamster convention, rank-and-file delegates explain who's behind the TDU-backed candidate LAS VEGAS--Behind every good man, one... MORE »

• 28 Jun 11

• Working

  Viva Las Vegas? Teamsters Gather in Sin City for Old-School Convention

  If resolutions could defeat management’s 'war on workers,' the IBT could declare victory now! LAS... MORE »

• 01 Jun 11

• Working

  Sisters In The Union Brotherhood: Still Struggling For Recognition

  Women in top union leadership positions generally don’t get much publicity—in part because there... MORE »

• 09 Apr 11

• Working

  GOP Targets Fragile Gains of Home-Based Caregivers

  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not alone in bashing public workers these days. In the view of Indiana... MORE »

• 22 Feb 11

• Working

  Does Labor Need Another Wimpy?

  A new biography underscores how rare blue-collar iconoclasm is today One of the great mysteries of American labor... MORE »

• 09 Dec 10

• Working

  Made in Dagenham: Lessons for Today From the Golden Age of Factory Unrest?

  In 1968, the world was transfixed by global student unrest. Less attention was paid to factory uprisings that occurred... MORE »

• 20 Sep 10

• Working

  Scoundrel Time At Kaiser, as SEIU/NUHW Election Showdown Continues

  Union hope and fear collide In California healthcare SAN FRANCISCO—The stereotypical union battles of the past... MORE »

• 23 Aug 10

• Working

  This Labor Day, Let’s Salute All Union Stewards—and Their Cutting Edge in California

  The real heroes of what’s left of the labor movement are not people with full-time union... MORE »

• 30 Jun 10

• Working

  Calif. Union Rebels Demand Biggest Labor Board Vote In Seven Decades

  Unhappy Kaiser workers aim to leave SEIU, join NUHW With justifiable pride (and the numbers to prove it),... MORE »

• 28 Apr 10

• Working

  Mary Kay Henry and Smoke Signals From the Purple Vatican

  Will SEIU’s West Coast 'Warrior' be an improvement on Pope Andy I?  In a video... MORE »

• 01 Mar 10

• Working

  SEIU’s Mega-Local Meltdown: Size Matters, But Members Matter More

  Nearly one year after Massachusetts local makeover, California follows suit When rank-and-file members run for office in the... MORE »

• 29 Jan 10

• Working

  The Night They Drove Old EFCA Down

  Scott Brown’s January 19 defeat of Martha Coakley in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s... MORE »

• 13 Jan 10

• Working

  Call for Participants: Home-Based Worker Organizing Forum in April!

  Workshop/worker panel to take place April 23-25, in Detroit, Michigan, in conjunction with the 2010 Labor Notes Conference... MORE »

• 09 Dec 09

• Working

  NYC Reformers Rise Again—In Transit And Teamsterdom

  Insurgents win hard-fought union elections, pledge rank-and-file focus The rise, fall, and rise again of union reformers is... MORE »

• 23 Nov 09

• Working

  Union Hypocrisy and Calif. Health Workers’ Fight For ‘Free Choice’

  As organized labor tries to sustain its inside-the-Beltway campaign for an Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), competitive healthcare... MORE »

• 18 Sep 09

• Working

  Principle and Power Plays: the Situational Ethics of Union ‘Raiding’

  PITTSBURGH—No subject ignites the passions of labor officialdom more than “raiding.” In his blustery... MORE »

• 15 Sep 09

• Working

  Specter In Pittsburgh: Punishment and Reward at AFL-CIO Convention

  “More than ever before, we need to be a labor movement that stands by our friends, punishes... MORE »

• 11 Sep 09

• Working

  Another Hail Mary Pass From Labor’s Latest Quarterback

  By Steve Early Hope for a revived union movement has come in successive waves in recent decades, only... MORE »

• 28 May 01

• Features

  Talking Shop

  Union reformers huddle at Labor Notes conference. MORE »

• 14 Dec 97

• Features

  What Went Wrong?

  The campaign money scandal of Teamster President Ron Carey. MORE »