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 There was a time in the late 1960s, when there was a lot of talk among many of us, who were hoping and wishing for change in America, about whether we could make it happen by working on the inside. We were radicals of a sort, so when these late-night discussions …
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 …
May 21, 2022 San Jose I’ve known Sarita Gupta as a friend and comrade for decades now, dating back to her time in Chicago and then nationally as head of Jobs With Justice. JWJ has been a coalition of some unions at the local and national level and a lot of labor activists for …
Pearl River I can hardly remember being so wrong, or so deliriously happy to have been wrong. More than once, reading the signs I could see from the experiences we have had organizing unions, I thought both of the Amazon elections were losers. Instead, now that the counts are in, the Amazon Workers Union …
New Orleans For years many union organizers have largely forsaken the NLRB as so legalistic and weighted towards delays and management manipulation that it has become an impossible mountain for workers to climb. Over the last six months, as we have been looking at the NLRB decisions around Starbucks and Amazon, many of …