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 Yes, the behemoth e-commerce giant Amazon lost an election to an upstart, rag tag independent rank-and-file union, the Amazon Labor Union, in recent weeks, but don’t think for a minute that this fiercely anti-union company is ready to say uncle and respect the wishes of a majority of their workers in …
Pearl River I can hardly remember being so wrong, or so deliriously happy to have been wrong. More than once, reading the signs I could see from the experiences we have had organizing unions, I thought both of the Amazon elections were losers. Instead, now that the counts are in, the Amazon Workers Union …
New Orleans This one statement reported in a complaint against Amazon filed in court by lawyers for a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board just about says it all. In their pleadings, the NLRB argued that unless federal district court agreed to give them a 10j injunction and reinstate a worker …
New Orleans The CEO of Starbucks has announced his resignation effective almost immediately. On an interim basis co-founder and former CEO Harold Schultz, hoping the third time is the charm, given his earlier stints in the corner office, has been designated to take over until a permanent hire can be made. Starbucks says …
Marble Falls Well, it’s “take me out to the ballpark” again, not that we’re running out of the house in that direction. The owners’ lockout is over after 99 days as both parties reached a tentative agreement. Whether you like baseball or it bores you stiff, and, yes, I realize that some of …