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 Bill Becker was president of the Arkansas AFL-CIO from 1964 to 1996. He passed away in 1997, shortly after retiring. I met Bill in 1970 in the fall after founding ACORN in Little Rock. I used to drop in and see him every month or so, asking advice, having a cup …
Pearl River One recent report noted that despite all of the talk, blue collar jobs in construction and elsewhere continue to go wanting, while service sector jobs, especially in healthcare are propping up the entire US economy. A report in the Wall Street Journal took this another step forward making the case that if …
New Orleans The American Prospect recently ran a lengthy piece reported by respected columnist, Harold Meyerson, on the internal conflict within the United Auto Workers (UAW), one of the major US unions, now and historically. While painful to read about a labor union’s internal strife, which is usually kept more successfully behind closed …