New Orleans It is not every day when the work of ACORN and its affiliates is written between the lines of major stories in The New York Times, but recently that was the case in a glaring, tragic story about the so-called “sleep mafia” in Delhi. The story of privatized sleep follows a familiar pattern …
Category: ACORN
Labor’s Depressing Data and the Contradictions Lying in Our Huge Potential
New Orleans Over the last week I found it hard and frustrating to come up with a coherent picture of the current predicament of the labor movement both here and yon. Talking to a long tenured colleague at the Change to Win federation in the USA, my brother remarked soberly that private sector union density …
Continued Global Oppression of Non-Profits
Mexico City This was another rough year for nonprofits in many countries around the world. Ever since the Organizers’ Forum visited Egypt, after the revolution, and we visited with the outstanding Center for Trade Union and Worker Services that is the central nonprofit supporting the development of an independent labor movement in that country, I …