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".
April 11, 2021 Pearl River There’s no way to put sugar in your coffee. The union’s loss at Amazon is deeply disappointing. A victory would have been a huge blast of wind pushing us forward. The defeat, so widely observed, is gale force knocking us backwards. The union knew they were going to lose and, …
March 30, 2021 New Orleans Two weeks ago, speaking to a NPR reporter based in Birmingham, Alabama, I told him that it was unlikely that the union, RWDSU, would win in the Amazon election, but that even a loss might be good for the US labor movement. I suspected …
Manchester In the modern world and economy, it’s hard to escape Amazon. Of course, on many levels, we all know this as part of our daily life. Their gray vans have become ubiquitous if you live in a city, and their eighteen wheelers are as common as Walmart’s when you are moving on …