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 Through the Workers Organizing Support Center we are regularly in touch with workers at the nation’s dollar stores. All of which made us pleased to read the long story in The American Prospect featuring the work and activism emerging as these workers start to organize. As Bryce Covert points out, Employees …
Little Rock A dozen of us, mostly old labor union hands as organizers or lawyers or whatever was necessary, got together on Zoom to talk about how to support the movement moment among workers today. There was good feeling and an undercurrent of commitment to understand the current situation, despite whatever wisdom and scars …
June 8, 2022 New Orleans Message from the universe to bosses: retail workers aren’t happy behind the counter! Another shoe just dropped onto the pile with the others: eight-five workers at a Trader Joe’s in western Massachusetts just organized an independent union and filed a petition with the NLRB for a certification election. …