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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".

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Sustaining Majority Unions

Citizen Wealth Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Organizing WalMart WARN October 29, 2009 by wade

Philadelphia It was a lot of fun to be the guest speaker at the annual Labor Lawyers reception to support Philadelphia Jobs with Justice.  It was a good, there were people, old friends and comrades came out of nowhere, and once we got to the problems of “majority unionism” as discussed in Citizen Wealth, and …

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So Long Card Check

Employee Free Choice Act Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Organizing July 17, 2009July 17, 2009 by wade

New Orleans  Steven Greenhouse reported in the Times today what most in the labor movement have come to expect for quite a while:  card check is not going to emerge in any final labor law reform at this time. Card check, as many must know, is a procedure allowing for recognition of a union as …

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SEIU’s Good Obama Bet

Employee Free Choice Act Financial Justice Health Care Labor Organizing Organizing May 16, 2009September 29, 2009 by wade

New Orleans Recent press reports and a big story in the Wall Street Journal have been sniping at the huge $85M set of contributions that the Service Employees International Union made on the Obama campaign. On one hand they seem to be insinuating crass influence buying and on the other hand they are hinting at …

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