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 play-pretend of the NCAA, as regulator of US college and university athletes, is steadily and surely coming to an end when it comes to paying them to play. The clock is ticking faster. It’s now just a matter of time. Under constant pressure, including from the courts and the NLRB, …
June 8, 2022 New Orleans Message from the universe to bosses: retail workers aren’t happy behind the counter! Another shoe just dropped onto the pile with the others: eight-five workers at a Trader Joe’s in western Massachusetts just organized an independent union and filed a petition with the NLRB for a certification election. …
New Orleans Make no mistake, even though this may be a movement moment for workers and the NLRB may actually be enforcing the letter and spirit of US labor laws for a change, there’s still nothing easy for workers when they try to traverse the minefields of a certification election at their workplace. …