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Zusatztext 86705449 Informationen zum Autor Steve Early, is a labor journalist and lawyer who has written for numerous publications including The Nation , The Boston Globe , the New York Times , and the Washington Post . He was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years, and is a member of the editorial advisory committees of three independent labor publications: Labor Notes , New Labor Forum and Working USA . His first book, from Monthly Review Press, is Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home . Klappentext Longtime trade union leader and journalist Steve Early examines labor's civil wars, offering strategies for turning back labor's thirty-year decline. Vorwort National radio and TV interviews Promotion targetting Labor periodicals Advertising in The Nation, The Progressive, and Mother Jones Features will be sought out from Labor Notes, Monthly Review, and other publications in which the author is well known Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Post card mailing upon publication Zusammenfassung BETWEEN 2008 AND 2010 , the progressive wing of the U.S. labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the campaign for real health care and labor law reform. Campus and community allies, along with many rank-and-file union members, were left angered and dismayed. In this incisive new book, labor journalist Steve Early draws on scores of interviews and on his own union organizing experience to explain why and how these labor civil wars occurred. He examines the bitter disputes about union structure, membership rights, organizing strategy, and contract standards that enveloped SEIU, UNITE HERE, the California Nurses Association, and independent organizations like the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico and the new National Union of Healthcare Workers in California. Along the way, we meet rank-and-file activists, local union officers, national leaders, and concerned friends of labor who were drawn into the fray. ...
