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 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 …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River In the more than forty years that I have known Nat LaCour, I had never known his full name was Nathaniel Hawthorne LaCour until I regrettably had to read his obituary when he passed away recently at 82 years of age. I bet there was …
New Orleans The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the figures on union membership and density for 2014 and for workers in general. The good news is that there are more jobs and more people are working. The same ol,’ same ol,’ bad news is that the weakening labor movement in the United States has …