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 This one statement reported in a complaint against Amazon filed in court by lawyers for a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board just about says it all. In their pleadings, the NLRB argued that unless federal district court agreed to give them a 10j injunction and reinstate a worker …
Marble Falls Well, it’s “take me out to the ballpark” again, not that we’re running out of the house in that direction. The owners’ lockout is over after 99 days as both parties reached a tentative agreement. Whether you like baseball or it bores you stiff, and, yes, I realize that some of …
New Orleans Finally, it appears that economists are catching up with the on-the-ground reality when it comes to workers and the factors that push down on their wages. Arguments that there is a free labor market, universally mobile and propelled by little more than self-interest, have always been specious. Rationalizations that low wages …