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 Before union organizing becomes a marathon, it’s important to sprint as fast as you can until the companies catch up. Sadly, we’re seeing this unfold now in the nascent efforts to organize workers at Amazon and Starbucks. The old saying that the “bigger they come, the harder they fall” is an …
New Orleans Honestly, the news of a second consecutive defeat by the Amazon Labor Union, in a two-to-one beatdown in Albany, New York, is depressing. Their victory earlier this year had been inspiring when they came back from a false start and soundly won in a much, much larger unit in Staten Island. …
New Orleans The US Department of Labor has now moved to give so-called gig workers some of the fundamental rights that other workers enjoy by proposing a clarifying standard of tests to determine their status. The tests would include the level of control they have over their jobs, and whether they have the …