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".
Marble Falls Hardly nine months ago, workers in a Buffalo Starbucks won the first US-election in the company. In the first eight months since that initial victory, Workers United / SEIU has won 200 elections, 52 of them unanimously, for a win rate of around 85% of all elections filed. According to the NLRB, …
Montreal If you’re looking for leadership from the AFL-CIO to meet the challenge of this movement moment among workers, you may have to keep looking. When newly elected AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler was elected to a full four-year term in the AFL-CIO convention, she declared a one-million new member goal. Reportedly, there was a …
New Orleans In Starbucks case, the new boss is not the same as the old boss. The new boss is the old boss several times over. The Starbucks board brought back Howard Shultz, who became a billionaire as CEO and one of the founders of the chain. Part of his mission was reportedly …
San Pedro Sula Workers at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area successfully petitioned the NLRB for elections as part of the SEIU’s Service Workers Union. The company fought ferociously, and it’s a long way from over, but the results of the first elections are now in. The union won in one store outright by more than 2 …