Chicago: Ballots have been in the mail for the last several weeks to 49000 home childcare workers in Illinois in one of the largest union representation elections ever conducted in the United States. Our sister local and one of the pillars of the ACORN family of organizations, SEIU Local 880, is on the ballot and …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Roseanne
New Orleans: From what they were telling me on Saturday morning in the office, full of the excitement of the night before, a call had come into New Orleans from ACORN’s office in Washington saying there was a table’s worth of free tickets for ACORN members from New Orleans at Roseanne’s show at the nearby …
Rebellious Lawyers?
New Haven: There are some simple rules in supporting a community of community and labor organizers and one of them in my book is to be accessible to their efforts to continue to define and expand their understanding of their work and experience as organizers. So it was easy when a request from a former …