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".
Cleveland SEIU’s Workers United has now won more than 700 elections covering 15,000 workers at Starbucks coffeehouses around the United States over the last four years or so. There has been no recent news indicating any progress in collective bargaining between the union and the company for more than a year to my reckoning. …
New Orleans Bill Becker was president of the Arkansas AFL-CIO from 1964 to 1996. He passed away in 1997, shortly after retiring. I met Bill in 1970 in the fall after founding ACORN in Little Rock. I used to drop in and see him every month or so, asking advice, having a cup …
San Jose What is happening with organizing around Amazon? They’ve slipped down the news cycle even as they race to dominate the world and curry favor with the White House. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals this week rejected yet another Hail Mary pass by Amazon in its continuing effort to delay bargaining by …