This series contains materials related to Early's work in organizing CWA locals in New Jersey, New York, and New England, from 1980-2000. The members in these unions worked for the state, Western Electric, AT&T, NYEX, Cellular One, and other telecommunication companies. The collection contains organizing materials and literature, flyers, newsletters, Early's writings and email correspondence, and other ephemera.

This series contains materials related to the strike against NYNEX (later Verizon) by 60,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) strikers in the Northeast in October and November of 1989. The strike was about healthcare cuts at the company for the workers. The series contains mobilization reports, clippings, flyers, posters, memoranda, negotiations materials, newsletters, buttons, strike kits and other organizing materials, a cassette tape, and other materials generated by the strikers and the strike organizers.

This series contains materials from two different strikes; the first was a strike against Southern New England Telephone (SNET) by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), Local 1298 and the Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers (CUTW) in Hamden, Connecticut. The strike lasted 28 days in August and September of 1998. The materials related to the strike include clippings, strike bulletins, bargaining and negotiations materials, campaign flyers, meeting agendas, strike strategy and training materials, final settlement documents, injunction-related legal papers, photographs (including photographs of Vice President Al Gore at the strike), correspondence, and other materials.

The other strike in this series is related to a four day walkout that was planned by the CWA against SBC Communications in May 2004, due to a stall in negotiations. The materials include clippings, materials on a tentative contracts, healthcare materials, and some material with organizing with Jobs with Justice.

This series relates to the strike in 2000 and the later contract campaigns against Verizon (which had recently formed from a merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE) in the 2000s. In 2000, 85,000 CWA and IBEW workers on the East Coast (12 states) went on strike for three weeks in August 2000 over mandatory overtime. Other materials in the series are related to contract campaigns throughout the early 2000s against Verizon over different labor practice, layoffs, and cut benefits at local unions in the northeast. At different points, organizers like Early worked with other social justice organizations, like Jobs with Justice, to mobilize workers. The materials in this series include mobilization reports, flyers, clippings, email correspondence, posters, bargaining and negotiations materials, research reports, strike bulletins, organizing materials, and other ephemera.