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 These days Amazon is the big dog barking, but we’re starting to nip at its heels. The NLRB Regional Director has ruled on the objections filed by the union, RWDSU/UFCW, from the election earlier in the year at one of their fulfillment warehouses in Bessemer, Alabama. He ordered a new election. The union says that it …
New Orleans What’s that old saying? It’s something like, if you can’t do, then teach. We may have gotten to the point in the labor movement, where if we can’t seem to organize, then at least we can lobby. Political work in creating leverage, opportunity, and even it seems, increased membership has long been the go-to Plan B driving …
New Orleans Black Friday seems like it’s daily for Amazon workers these days, even though in technical, which is to say, marketing, terms it’s right after the American Thanksgiving, hard upon us. Then there’s what they now call Cyber Monday, like Mothers’ Day, another marketing invention by master retailers, all of which seems mainly …