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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

ACORN Waste Pickers First Meeting

ACORN Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing Personal Writings April 26, 2008 by wade

Delhi      Having enrolled 1,000 members in the last several months into ACORN India’s first major organizing project in Delhi among informal workers working as waste pickers, the highlight of my trip was being able to be part of the first major organizing meeting of 50 delegates from the ACORN Waste Pickers in the …

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Tactical Disaster

Health Care Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings April 17, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     The dispute between the California Nurses Association, AFL-CIO, and the Service Employees International Union has bitter roots in California and unfortunately is spreading elsewhere in the country. Rose Ann DeMoro, the CNA chief has been an purist on many issues and with a broad brush has tried to paint SEIU as evil, …

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Employee Free Choice

ACORN Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings April 14, 2008 by wade

New York City     No stronger case was made at the recent dialogue of the Organizers’ Forum of the critical opportunity to increase progressive capacity and impact additionally on equity than the one made by the labor participants from the AFT, SEIU, UFCW, and the AFL-CIO. Stewart Acuff, the AFL’s Organizing Director, and Fred Azarcate, …

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