Member Profile
Steve Early
Steve Early worked for 27 years as an organizer and international representative for the Communications Workers of America. He is the author of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor, from Haymarket Books, which chronicles past California healthcare union conflicts. He has a forthcoming book from Monthly Review Press titled, Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress.
Early is a labor journalist and lawyer who has written for numerous publications. He is the author of Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home. Early is a member of the editorial advisory committees of three independent labor publications: Labor Notes, New Labor Forum and Working USA.
Most Recent Articles
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Features
The Big Do-Over at Kaiser
Which way will 45,000 California healthcare workers swing? The answer has major implications for labor. more »
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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 »
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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 »
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Features
Torie Osborn Crashes the Party
The spirited California Assembly candidate battles the Democratic establishment. more »
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Out of the Margins, Into the Fray
The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics. more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
