Ottawa Thanks to Rob Clarke, director of FairTrade Canada, the affiliated licensing and marketing combine for fair trade certified products in Canada, and his excellent team, I got a quick education and a lot of offers for help in advancing ACORN International’s partnership with COMUCAP, the women’s coffee and aloe vera co-op in Honduras. I …
Month: June 2011
A New Wal-Mart Workers Association
Ottawa The UFCW’s effort to assist the development of a workers’ association for the so-called “associates” of Wal-Mart finally has made its debut after a long period of work, claiming thousands of members and organization on the ground in California, Texas, Washington State, as well as efforts in Florida and elsewhere that are well known. …
Targeting Employment Agency Scam
Montreal It was exciting to meet with the organizers and volunteers of the Immigrant Workers Center in Montreal and hear about their developing campaigns to finally bring aggressive statutory and regulatory reform to temporary employment agency scams and the companies that use them. The IWC has identified a number of gaps in the Quebec provincial …