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 There’s no way to put sugar in the coffee on this: unions have suffered in countries across the world in recent decades as they faced fierce corporate and governmental opposition. Union leaders and organizers cite many reasons to explain their loss of membership, even as polls among workers in the US …
New Orleans Over Christmas, an obituary ran in the Wall Street Journal for an unusual doctor, named William Levis, who died in his sleep at 86, having seen patients during the last week of his life. All that was interesting enough, but what caught my attention was the fact that he ran the …
New Orleans The headlines said that 1000 Starbucks workers were on strike on the company’s annual “red cup” holiday special. The strike was indefinite, the union said, and was happening in 65 stores across 40 states. In New Orleans, nurses went on strike for the 5th time for 3 days at the UMC …