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".
Marble Falls I would have hated to have acted with “premature certainty” when I predicted, after meeting with longtime TDU leader Ken Paff last month, that based on the non-economic progress in the UPS-Teamsters negotiations that there would not be a strike. This is the biggest private sector contract in the US, covering …
New Orleans It was only a matter of time before someone outside the labor movement pointed out what should have become all too obvious to union organizers and leadership for a while. In the exciting and inspiring victories of Amazon workers in Staten Island and Starbucks baristas in hundreds of locations around the …
New Orleans A quote from a barista about higher education caught my eye. She was 21 years old and originally from the Philippines. She had graduated from a competitive magnet high school and taken some courses at a community college, but opted to go to work rather than college. Diversity and affirmative action …