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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

Deadly Work

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings May 27, 2008 by wade

Dallas        David Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan, and former prosecutor for the Justice Department, offered some painful reminders today in an op-ed piece in the Times of how deadly work can be and how small the penalties employers pay for the risks to workers.     He told a story of …

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Big Deal in San Francisco

ACORN Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings May 21, 2008 by wade

New Orleans        John Eller, director of ACORN’s San Francisco office, sent an email while I was in Los Angeles, but I didn’t connect with him until coming in bleary eyed from the all night flight back to the city.  The news was huge!     ACORN working with the SF affiliate of PICO, the San …

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A Horse to Beat A Horse

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing May 10, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     In the war of the knives going on within SEIU, one of the more insidious tactics is the leaking of all manner of internal documents. Today’s Wall Street Journal featured a front page story on a 2005 agreement with Compass and Sodexho to allow organizing neutrality rights at their operations with the …

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