Ottawa In the final event of the first ACORN Canada Convention members gathered in front of the National Bank of Canada, assembling to raise the demand to lower bank and money transfer fees for remittances. With Parliament looming over them car after car honked in support of lower bank fees. Hardly a struggling immigrant [...]
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Ottawa The members listened intently and applauded frequently as they were addressed by friends from the Canadian labor movement. Unfortunately what they were hearing was less a Canadian problem than part of an orchestrated international attack by governments and corporations on basic employment standards and unions. Sean McKenny, President of the Ottawa District Labour Council, [...] Boston Talking to organizers the last night about security workers being subcontracted, one casually mentioned what could and could not be done because of the Boston Living Wage ordinance. At Boston University with Professor Lee Staples as we made the case and claims for the power of community organizing it was natural to once again [...] As ACORN Canada prepares to introduce its initiative to create the first municipal living wage bylaw (or ordinance) in Canada in mid-May, the behind the scenes debate with city councilors is intensely focusing the politics and economics on the “right” hourly rate as usual, but also on the important question of average hours. The [...] |
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