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".
New Orleans These days Amazon is the big dog barking, but we’re starting to nip at its heels. The NLRB Regional Director has ruled on the objections filed by the union, RWDSU/UFCW, from the election earlier in the year at one of their fulfillment warehouses in Bessemer, Alabama. He ordered a new election. The union says that it …
New Orleans Black Friday seems like it’s daily for Amazon workers these days, even though in technical, which is to say, marketing, terms it’s right after the American Thanksgiving, hard upon us. Then there’s what they now call Cyber Monday, like Mothers’ Day, another marketing invention by master retailers, all of which seems mainly …
New Orleans It seems like we’re still in mourning and recovery from the devasting union loss at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, and now workers have announced that they are filing for an election in a giant fulfillment center, employing 5000 workers, in Staten Island, New York. This is an exciting and important development …