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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cn09142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis There are some difficult paradoxes involved in understanding the situation for labor unions, and for that matter, workers, in Tunisia. It is fair to say that the large labor federation UGTT is the only union anywhere in the world to get a slice of a Nobel …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09102019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDusseldorf Under this US administration, never say, “It can’t get much worse,” because it will. In the assault on workers’ fundamental organizing rights under the National Labor Relations Act, the latest decision by the Trump-stacked board is potentially disastrous. In a 3-1 decision with the NLRB’s Trump-appointed …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09072019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam The Department of Labor under the Trump administration is doing all it can to assure app-based tech companies from Uber, Deliveroo, and others that they will bend over backwards to shield them from classification as directly employed workers rather than independent subcontracts. Government agencies in an …