New Orleans There can’t be much joy these days in Bentonville, Arkansas, home of Walmart and its buddies. The litany of woes just keeps piling up. Five consecutive quarters of reduced financial returns has to lead the list. In the land of the 1% you can just about get away with murder if you’re making …
Category: Canada
The Open Door to Accelerating “Majority” Unionization in Canada
Edinburgh When we’re not practicing “raps,” and strategizing about the best way forward in the Leith neighborhood of Edinburgh for ACORN Scotland, I’ve been thinking about the interesting features of the labor law in the United Kingdom that allow workers to build unions and win consultation rights with employers prior to achieving majorities that would …
Tenant Health Protections Need to be Equivalent to Health Protections
Bristol As ACORN International organizers from Rome, Prague, Edinburgh, Bristol, Toronto, Vancouver, London, and the USA shared stories of issues, campaigns, and tactics in our annual meeting a surprising issue with global connections has begun occupying more and more of our conversations, beginning to crowd into time normally devoted to the cost of remittances and …