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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".

Category: Workers

Workers and Their Unions Fighting the Tide

Unions Workers February 13, 2025 by Chief Organizer

            Little Rock       Exhausted after a long day, I fell asleep on children’s time, which wasn’t terrible, since my watch gave me my highest sleep score ever at 70.  I can remember one weird dream before waking.  I got a call, bizarrely, from the EPI, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, telling me to click on …

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Federal Workers Asked to Buy Pig in a Poke

Unions Workers January 31, 2025 by Chief Organizer

            Pearl River      A brief note emailed to two-million federal workers suggested that they must decide within a few days whether to take a buyout offer that would pay them through September and resign, or, essentially, take their chances about whether in the new regime their job and their ability to remain employed would survive.  …

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Workers’ Rights as Symbol without Substance

Workers September 16, 2024 by Chief Organizer

New Orleans       I got kind of excited recently when I stumbled on a proposed amendment to the city charter that memorialize the rights of city workers in New Orleans to unionize and collectively bargain. There’s a backstory, of course.  Our union had won an election to represent all but a couple of city departments …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

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