New Orleans Yikes – every once in a while, we find out we are out there on our own in a wild world where the protection provided for fools and little children is sadly lacking. This summer after 18 months of negotiation, we acquired through donation and loans a fantastic mobile biodiesel rig on an 8 …
Category: ACORN International
Exploiting Contract Workers
New Orleans Reading an surprisingly good article in the New York Times about the union fight in Indonesia against the great mega-retailer Carrefour to win rights for contract workers that they thought they had gained in a strike earlier this year, I was struck by how blind we all are to similar worker exploitation right …
Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Time Banking, and Know Your Care
Detroit The ACORN Canada staff finished an excellent Year End / Year Begin meeting in “southern Canada” across the river from Windsor in Detroit, where 15 of the team discussed campaigns, results of last year’s work, and goals for the coming year. In order to get a sense of other organizing while they were in …