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 Doggone it! It’s never easy to find the reverse gear on opinions that have become comfortable and well-worn. I loved calling this concept of the Great Resignation of workers reacting to the pandemic by leaving their jobs and sometimes the entire workforce a “silent strike.” I’ve written about it, talked about …
Pearl River The movement moment of workers standing up to employers to demand their rights, and, in many cases, seek to organize a union to protect and advance those rights in the future, continues to pick up steam. The evidence continues to mount. More than 200 petitions have now been filed by Starbucks workers, …
New Orleans Welcome to one of the first organizing committee meetings of the Jennifer Abruzzo Fan Club! Just the other day, I was touting the fact that there was a new sheriff in town; the town being Washington, DC; and, the wild west frontier being the usually staggering, drunken ol’ cowpoke with a …
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 For years many union organizers have largely forsaken the NLRB as so legalistic and weighted towards delays and management manipulation that it has become an impossible mountain for workers to climb. Over the last six months, as we have been looking at the NLRB decisions around Starbucks and Amazon, many of …