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".
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. …
Pearl River It has been many minutes since I have run into Ellen Bravo, but I welcomed the chance to do so again, this time on Wade’s World. Ellen has been in the work for decades, coming to wide attention when she was the director of 9-to-5, the National Association of Working Women, for …
New Orleans Make no mistake, even though this may be a movement moment for workers and the NLRB may actually be enforcing the letter and spirit of US labor laws for a change, there’s still nothing easy for workers when they try to traverse the minefields of a certification election at their workplace. …