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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".

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ACORN Amazon June 14, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            Brooklyn          Thanks to my darling daughter, over the last year or so, before I make a long drive whether to Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia, I make sure I’ve got some audiobooks handy.  There’s Audible, the Amazon product, and then there’s Libby, the free site from our public library.  I was pretty desperate, as I …

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Subcontractors Revolt in India and Kenya

Amazon Labor Workers June 2, 2023 by Chief Organizer

          New Orleans      Facebook or Meta, whatever you want to call it, and Amazon are slippery employers.  For all of their hundreds of thousands of direct employees, they almost have as many contract workers on the cheap, either doing jobs that expose the companies to liabilities or where they can simply scrimp on pay. …

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The Amazon Organizing Problem Here and There

ACORN International Amazon India Unions March 23, 2023 by Chief Organizer

Little Rock       In Delhi, I spent an hour or so talking to a veteran union leader and organizer, formerly a member of the executive in the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) talking about the effort to organize one of the many warehouses Amazon was running in East Delhi in Uttar Pradesh in the capital …

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