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Steve Early

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Open Shop Trend Makes Organizing “the Organized” Top Union Priority

August 28, 2014 by Steve Early 1 Comment

For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that “external organizing” — to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights — and “internal organizing,” which involves engaging more […]

Filed Under: Labor movement Tagged With: labor law, open shop, Right to Work

Labor’s Love Lost Over Obamacare?

August 30, 2013 by Steve Early Leave a Comment

Like many labor negotiators, I looked to health care reform for legislative relief from endless haggling with management over employee benefit costs. My own union and others worked hard for passage of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) three years ago.  Despite its failure to take health insurance issues off the bargaining table, as a […]

Filed Under: Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: corporations, health care

Verizon Strike: A Teachable Moment?

August 23, 2011 by Steve Early 3 Comments

Why Health Care Strikes Should Demand “Health Care For All,” Not Just “Hands Off My ‘Middle Class’ Benefits” For two weeks in August, thousands of Verizon strikers provided an inspiring display of picket-line militancy and resistance to contract concessions. From Massachusetts to Virginia, members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Classism in the Economy, Classist Corporations, Labor movement Tagged With: health care, middle class, public services, union-bashing

Caregiver Unions: Much Needed But Most Vulnerable Now

February 22, 2011 by Steve Early Leave a Comment

Often overlooked amid the current attacks on long-established public sector unions around the country is the threat to recently organized workers, who are the lowest paid and most badly treated. When “regular” state workers are under attack, it’s not easy to improve the conditions of a contingent workforce of direct care providers at the bottom […]

Filed Under: Classism in Politics, Classism in the Economy, Poverty Tagged With: budget cuts, poverty, union-bashing

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