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".
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. …
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 …
Marble Falls On a recent Wade’s World, I talked to Debbie Goldman, the former research director for many years of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The excuse for the conversation was an excerpt running in the coming Social Policy and her book, Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital …