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".
May 4, 2021 New Orleans Though expected, the union defeat at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center was a gut punch to the labor movement not only in the United States, but globally. Amazon workers in other countries had expressed solidarity with Bessemer through direct action, including strikes in Italy and walkouts in France. Hopes were …
New Orleans The following is my guest blog on the Working Class Perspectives site run by Professor Sherry Linkon of Georgetown and Professor John Russo, formerly of Youngstown State University in Ohio and now visiting scholar with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor, also at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The federal minimum …
New Orleans May Day is Labor Day around the world, but the first Monday in September is labor’s day in North America. I was honored to be able to write the Labor Day post on the 10th anniversary of the Working Class Perspectives posts, so take a read there https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/labors-day-more-or-less/. It’s hard for most of us …