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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".

Category: Labor Organizing

Teach 4 America: Union Busters?

Citizen Wealth Education Labor Organizing Organizing August 18, 2009August 18, 2009 by wade

New Orleans Reading the New Orleans Times-Picayune this morning was troubling.  I had thought about this problem before, but was confronted with too many telling and disturbing statistics to continue to ignore it today.  Like everyone, I want to believe that Teach for America and similar programs are good, not just for the young folks …

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Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Labor Organizing July 23, 2009July 23, 2009 by wade

This is a blog being written while the Fox News Documentary cameras are hovering literally a couple of feet away.  They are shooting B-roll and coming to the author event at Octavia Books tonight for Citizen Wealth:  Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families. When I polled friends, family, and readers of the Chief Organizer …

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So Long Card Check

Employee Free Choice Act Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Organizing July 17, 2009July 17, 2009 by wade

New Orleans  Steven Greenhouse reported in the Times today what most in the labor movement have come to expect for quite a while:  card check is not going to emerge in any final labor law reform at this time. Card check, as many must know, is a procedure allowing for recognition of a union as …

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