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 With 1.6 million workers, organizers know that a straight-up NLRB-based election strategy is a loser with Wal-Mart. To have any bargaining power on that model, unions would have to believe that they could win certification at a significant number of the 5000 locations the company operates in the US. Organizing 2000 of them …
Pearl River: Thanks to the Stansbury Forum, a website for labor organizers and activists, for asking me to do this long post for them on other ways of looking at organizing Amazon. This is Part I of four Parts. Amazon? There Has to be a Better Way Amazon, we have a problem! Jeff Bezos may …
August 4, 2021 New Orleans The NLRB hearing officer has issued a complaint in the Bessemer, Alabama, union election involving Amazon warehouse workers on the question of representation by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), affiliated with the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW). In the NLRB process, a complaint is issued …