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 I would have hated to have acted with “premature certainty” when I predicted, after meeting with longtime TDU leader Ken Paff last month, that based on the non-economic progress in the UPS-Teamsters negotiations that there would not be a strike. This is the biggest private sector contract in the US, covering …
Pearl River You gotta love it, the “Nanny” is now starring in “Fist.” What? You have trouble seeing Fran Drescher in the Jimmy Hoffa role? It’s easier to see than to remember that it was Ronald Reagan in that role the last time actors hit the bricks. AFTRA/SAG and its 140,000 members are now on …
Dallas It was a crazy day, but we had made a commitment to present a paper that had been supported by the LRAN, the Labor Research and Action Network, at their 12th Annual Conference at Georgetown University, so, by God, a promise is a promise, even if it meant a 530 am plane …