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 A change in the configuration of the supply chain means different things to different countries. The pandemic lessons and its shortages are often touted as potentially bringing manufacturing and production closer to markets rather than depending as heavily on China and other southeast Asian countries. Domestic production and Mexico could benefit, if …
Montreal If you’re looking for leadership from the AFL-CIO to meet the challenge of this movement moment among workers, you may have to keep looking. When newly elected AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler was elected to a full four-year term in the AFL-CIO convention, she declared a one-million new member goal. Reportedly, there was a …
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 …