Author 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 several books, including Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City (Beacon Press). He can be reached at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Diverse, Radical and Ready to Resist: Meet the First in the New Wave of Local Progressive Officials
At Local Progress's 150-person meet-up, left-leaning politicians from around the country share plans to build rebel cities. MORE
Act Locally · August 8, 2017
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Seattle’s Lessons for Bernie Sanders Activists After the Elections
A new book gives some pointers on taking Sanders' revolution to the local level. MORE
Features · June 7, 2016
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A Tale of Two Teamsters: Building a Community-Minded Union in Mid-Century St. Louis
Long before the birth of Teamsters for a Democratic Union in the mid-1970s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was hostile terrain for creating model local unions. In the 1930s, warehouse workers... MORE
Working · May 10, 2016
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Why Labor Should Get Behind Bernie Sanders in the Primary Elections
This post first appeared at Jacobin. When I first met Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders, he was a relatively marginal figure in his adopted state of Vermont. It was 1976 and he was running,... MORE
Working · May 27, 2015
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Vermont Activists Battle Democratic Governor for Single-Payer Health Care
Liz Nikazmerad is a rarity in American labor: a local union president under the age of 30, displaying both youth and militancy. For the last two year years, she has led the 180-member Local 203... MORE
Working · April 22, 2015
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In 3,800-Worker Strike, the Ghost of Tony Mazzocchi Still Haunts Big Oil
Twelve years ago, America’s leading advocate of occupational health and environmental safety succumbed to pancreatic cancer. In the U.S., where the influence of organized labor has long been contracting, the... MORE
Working · February 5, 2015
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Hawaiian Health Care Workers Push Back Against Health Care Giant Kaiser Permanente
Mary Ann Barnes, the newly arrived president of health care giant Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii, recently informed hospital workers that the world figure she most admires is the late Mother Teresa—because... MORE
Working · October 28, 2014
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Railroad Conductor: ‘Railroading Has Changed So Much’
For three years in the early 1970s, journalist Studs Terkel gathered stories from a variety of American workers. He then compiled them into Working, an oral-history collection that went on to become a... MORE
Working · September 8, 2014
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For Labor, an Open Shop Doesn’t Have to Mean Closed Doors
For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize the unorganized” to offset and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often... MORE
Working · September 1, 2014
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Police Officer: ‘Policing Mostly Became a Response to the 911 Call Machine’
For three years in the early 1970s, journalist Studs Terkel gathered stories from a variety of American workers. He then compiled them into Working, an oral-history collection that went... MORE
Working · June 23, 2014