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 14, 2021 New Orleans This is like the version of the old joke. What’s the good news? The union beat Amazon in the election. What’s the bad news? The union beat Amazon in the Bessemer election. Stated another way, what would have happened if the dog had caught the truck? In short, you …
April 10, 2021 Pearl River The results of the union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama are finally tallied and the scorecard by the numbers was 1798 voting NO to be represented by RWDSU/UFCW with 738 voting YES for the RWDSU. There were 500 challenges that were uncounted in the box, largely by …
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, …