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: Thanks to the Stansbury Forum, a website for labor organizers and activists, for asking me to do this long post for them on other ways of looking at organizing Amazon. This is Part I of four Parts. Amazon? There Has to be a Better Way Amazon, we have a problem! Jeff Bezos may …
Pearl River We got lucky. We took a chance and left Natchez, Mississippi, where we had sheltered, and bet that despite the Katrina anniversary horrors wrought by Ida, that we might be alright near the Pearl River on the Mississippi border. The odds were all in our favor. We had cameras at the camp …
Pearl River On the eve of Labor Day, I found myself talking with Middlebury Sociology Professor Jamie McCallum on Wade’s World about a range of topics from worker surveillance to hours of work to the impact of the pandemic on workers to the state of unions today, since McCallum was also a former SEIU organizer …