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".
Pearl River Labor Day is hardly in the rearview mirror, but it must be on peoples’ minds, because items about the struggles of city workers in both New Orleans and Little Rock have both hit my inbox. In both cases, workers efforts to get a union or maintain viable collective bargaining rights seem stymied …
Pearl River I don’t know Matt Bruenig, but I know his work. He’s a labor lawyer who birddogs the proceedings, filings, and decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). One of our organizers tipped me off about his newsletter the NLRB Edge, which I look at regularly, because it’s a fount of information. Because …
Taipei We were on the hunt for union and labor activists in Taiwan. I remembered that some twenty years ago, plus or minus, either a labor federation or someone had invited and financed a visit from an ACORN representative with our Living Wage Center to come to the island to help spark the …