Steve Early

2 weeks ago | prospect.org | Steve Early |Suzanne Gordon

When President Trump’s cabinet picks trooped up to Capitol Hill earlier this year for Senate confirmation hearings, hardly any boasted about their past union connections. But Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins did.

3 weeks ago | laprogressive.com | Steve Early |Rob Maurer

A look at recent bottom-up efforts to win endorsements for Bernie Sanders and mobilize trade unionists against Donald Trump offer insights into how the labor movement can better and more democratically engage its members in politics. Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of working-class voters.

3 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Steve Early

Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of working-class voters. That venerable bait-and-switch routine reached its twenty-first-century apex in the form of Donald Trump’s successful faux-populist campaigns for the White House in 2016 and 2024.

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Steve Early

Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of working-class voters. That venerable bait-and-switch routine reached its 21st century apex in the form of Donald Trump’s successful faux populist campaigns for the White House in 2016 and 2024.

1 month ago | beyondchron.org | Steve Early

“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all”– Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnistFew San Francisco neighborhoods have had more ups and downs than the 33-block area still called “The Tenderloin”—a name which derives from the late 19th century police practice of shaking down local restaurants and butcher shops by taking their best cuts of beef in lieu of cash bribes.