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 A Washington Post article caught my eye saying, “The future of white-collar work may be unionized.” Really, I thought to myself, in what dream cycle, what’s up with this? Some of this is just a logical statement of fact. Blue collar work, especially in manufacturing, continues to decline, and construction unions …
Marble Falls I wasn’t familiar with the negotiating strategy being popularized by a guy named Chris Voss called “tactical empathy,” until reading an interview in Sunday Times from over a month ago. Turns out that Voss was a career FBI guy who went from being on SWAT teams to becoming their lead negotiator …
Pearl River Labor and the unions that represent American workers have quickly gone from the most union-friendly president in the last 50 years or more to the most union-unfriendly president in probably one-hundred years. It’s a little bit like celebrating Labor Day from a hospital bed. We’re glad to be alive, but, boy, are …