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 29, 2021 Atlanta Jobless claims are reportedly finally going down after a full-year of the pandemic, and employers are crying that they have vacancies that they are unable to fill. The left notes that the wages and benefits on offer are too low, and that’s certainly true without a federal minimum wage increase in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Losing your job through layoffs or even temporarily in a furlough is a terrible thing. For years, state unemployment divisions, under the brutal thumbs of corporate dominated conservative legislatures and governors have seen it as their jobs to make it as hard as possible to …
New Orleans Unstable and precarious employment and income is something that every union organizer in labor unions involved in the service sector recognizes as a daily fact of life for workers. In Walmart, 1o years ago, just as it is today, we organized Walmart workers in Florida against the computer scheduling from Bentonville, Arkansas that …