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 Once again, it’s hard not to quote the Beach Boys line about how “we wish we could all be in California” or something close to that. When it comes to the progress being made for working people by labor unions, the recent news has been amazing. As PBS and the Associated …
Heerlen The only thing that really changes the prospects for workers joining unions is actual organizing, but the law can make the process harder, as we have seen for decades, or easier, as we always hope. We are about to see if unions rise to the challenge and seize the moment being offered by …
New Orleans Facebook or Meta, whatever you want to call it, and Amazon are slippery employers. For all of their hundreds of thousands of direct employees, they almost have as many contract workers on the cheap, either doing jobs that expose the companies to liabilities or where they can simply scrimp on pay. …