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 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 …
Pearl River Labor Day is hardly in the rearview mirror, but it must be on peoples’ minds, because items about the struggles of city workers in both New Orleans and Little Rock have both hit my inbox. In both cases, workers efforts to get a union or maintain viable collective bargaining rights seem stymied …