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 28, 2021 Atlanta There’s just no way to love the Service, as the IRS calls itself. Here’s an example. It’s 2021, hardly anyone even has a fax machine anymore, but the IRS, alone among almost all federal agencies and certainly business in America, will not accept emails and scanned documents. Any document transfer has …
April 27, 2021 New Orleans In one of President Biden’s recent executive orders, he announced a plan to appoint a White House commission, chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris, to come up with ideas on how to support labor unions. Obviously, the government can’t organize unions for us, nor can they sign up our members, but …
ACORN Founder and Chief Organizer Wade Rathke was recently featured in two NPR news articles. In the first interview, Wade speaks with NPR reporter Stephan Bisaha about the process of starting a campaign to unionize, and why exactly it’s so difficult to win against big employers. In the second, after the union vote has been …