WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River I can hardly remember being so wrong, or so deliriously happy to have been wrong. More than once, reading the signs I could see from the experiences we have had organizing unions, I thought both of the Amazon elections were losers. Instead, now that the counts are in, the Amazon Workers Union …
New Orleans For years many union organizers have largely forsaken the NLRB as so legalistic and weighted towards delays and management manipulation that it has become an impossible mountain for workers to climb. Over the last six months, as we have been looking at the NLRB decisions around Starbucks and Amazon, many of …
New Orleans This one statement reported in a complaint against Amazon filed in court by lawyers for a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board just about says it all. In their pleadings, the NLRB argued that unless federal district court agreed to give them a 10j injunction and reinstate a worker …