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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".

Category: Unions

Hail to the Chief and the Rank and File

Ideas and Issues NLRB Unions Workers May 8, 2022 by digital

May 7, 2022             New Orleans      Labor Secretary Martin Walsh, also former Mayor of Boston and a union leader before his election and appointment to the cabinet, started his remarks in a refreshing Boston brogue with a laughing jab at the president of Georgetown University as he touted being a graduate of Holy Cross …

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John J. Sweeney’s Celebratory and Complicated Legacy

ACORN Personal Writings Unions May 6, 2022May 5, 2022 by digital

May 6, 2022             Washington     John Sweeny was the head of the Service Employees in 1984, when the United Labor Unions, affiliated with SEIU.  I met him then.  I last saw him in 2009 at a packed, standing room only gathering at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall when he was given an honorary degree there, right …

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Starbucks Real Anti-Union Strategy is Time

Ideas and Issues Starbucks Unions Workers April 30, 2022 by digital

            New Orleans      In Starbucks case, the new boss is not the same as the old boss.  The new boss is the old boss several times over.   The Starbucks board brought back Howard Shultz, who became a billionaire as CEO and one of the founders of the chain.  Part of his mission was reportedly …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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