April 27, 2021 New Orleans In one of President Biden’s recent executive orders, he announced a plan to appoint a White House commission, chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris, to come up with ideas on how to support labor unions. Obviously, the government can’t organize unions for us, nor can they sign up our members, but …
Month: April 2021
Interview Feature: NPR “Gulf States Newsroom” and the Amazon Union Vote
ACORN Founder and Chief Organizer Wade Rathke was recently featured in two NPR news articles. In the first interview, Wade speaks with NPR reporter Stephan Bisaha about the process of starting a campaign to unionize, and why exactly it’s so difficult to win against big employers. In the second, after the union vote has been …
Supporting Children Rather than Demonizing Mothers
April 26, 2021 New Orleans I got my education in the racial and income bridges within families, mothers, and children early as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization. Women of all races, but mainly the Black and brown members of the groups we organized in Springfield, Massachusetts during the late 1960s would regularly …