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".
June 11, 2021 New Orleans More than a year ago, our union had filed OSHA complaints in behalf of workers we represent in community care homes for mentally challenged consumers in Louisiana for lack of personal protection equipment (PPE) and failure to isolate and segregate positive Covid-19 cases. We even did actions demanding responses at …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The irony and contradictions around so-called “essential” workers are vexing – mainly to the workers themselves. They have to go to work because they are, by definition, essential, yet employers in the main seem both committed to labeling them as essential and continuing to …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Ten percent of Americans have absolutely, flat-to-the-bone, no health insurance. Many others have Trump-plan insurance with high deductibles, covering nothing much at all, but maybe catastrophes up to certain lifetime payment levels. Many of these same people are exactly the people who have to work, …