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 Worker mobility is always of interest in the United States, especially when companies are scrambling during the pandemic and post-pandemic labor shortage that is helping fuel worker organizing across the country. Are workers really making big moves now to expanding job markets, or are we being fed some kind of boosterism …
New Orleans Doggone it! It’s never easy to find the reverse gear on opinions that have become comfortable and well-worn. I loved calling this concept of the Great Resignation of workers reacting to the pandemic by leaving their jobs and sometimes the entire workforce a “silent strike.” I’ve written about it, talked about …
New Orleans We have an old saying in our work: “live by the press, die by the press.” What we always meant was straightforward. If you were just counting on the media, not your base, to win a campaign, you might get away with it once or twice, but eventually, it would turn …