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".
Marble Falls Yes, the behemoth e-commerce giant Amazon lost an election to an upstart, rag tag independent rank-and-file union, the Amazon Labor Union, in recent weeks, but don’t think for a minute that this fiercely anti-union company is ready to say uncle and respect the wishes of a majority of their workers in …
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 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 …
Marble Falls My first reaction was disbelief. I asked Dharmendra Kumar, ACORN India’s director in Delhi, “Do you realize the time difference between Bangkok, Thailand and me?” He was moderating a panel at the Asian Pacific World Social Forum that would run between 415 PM and 545 PM Bangkok time which would be 315 …
Marble Falls After dealing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) off and on for the last more than forty years, I never expected to get a Seasons’ Greeting from them, but miracles never cease. The news is out of a major settlement between Amazon and the Board that is national in scope. The headlines are all touting …