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 The US Department of Labor has now moved to give so-called gig workers some of the fundamental rights that other workers enjoy by proposing a clarifying standard of tests to determine their status. The tests would include the level of control they have over their jobs, and whether they have the …
New Orleans Working Class Perspectives gave me the honor of the Labor Day blog again this year, so it’s a pleasure to share it with you, while hoping you remember the value of labor on this day of recognition. Essential Workers Take Action During the pandemic, the working class that had been …
Marble Falls George Orwell’s 1984 may have missed the year, but with the advent of computers and new monitoring software, he was right about the peril of constant surveillance, even if it has turned out to be more pronounced in the workplace than in public space. I say that with a slight modification, …