Steve Early Communications Workers of America Papers 1987-2007

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Steve Early Communications Workers of America Papers 1987-2007

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Steve Early was an organizer, strike strategist, labor educator, and lawyer, and a national staff member of the Communications Workers of America. He is the author of (2009) and his articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces have appeared in labor, progressive and mainstream periodicals and newspapers. This collection documents the struggles of the Communications Workers of America in New York, New Jersey, and New England with the NYNEX telephone company, SNET, SBC, and Verizon, and includes contract campaigns, strike, and organizing materials from the 1980s until 2007. Materials included in this collection are meeting notes, memos, newsletters, circulars, fliers, clippings, injunction-related legal materials, and several posters. Embedded With Organized Labor

6.25 linear feet; in 6 record cartons and two folders.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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