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 When you’re hearing and reading that nonprofit organizations are no longer just fighting to compete for workers with profit companies because of wage differentials for similar work, but are now saying that they are competing with fast food and retail companies who are offering more money, you know there’s a real crisis in the …
Marble Falls I stumbled on a surprising item in the Washington Post. A handful of states have carved out exceptions for workers voluntarily leaving their jobs because they are refusing employer compliance with the vaccine mandate. These deep red states want these anti-vax protestors to get unemployment. I could hardly believe my eyes, but seeing is believing as they wrote that … …
New Orleans We can’t seem to get Congress to read the memo and increase the federal minimum wage, but in almost every other way, workers’ wages seem on the rise, and the signs are everywhere. Kellogg workers after two months on strike still voted down a tentative, five-year contract with the company. Not enough money with their …