Harris v. Quinn Part 3: The Problem of Creating Employers for Informal Workers

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New Orleans     Looking at the history of home-based work both in healthcare and daycare and its roots in domestic work going back to USA colonial times and branching directly out from plantation life at the end of slavery, it really goes without saying that the Court’s decision and creation of a new classification of “partial …

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English Community Organizing Program Tries to Plot a Path to the Future

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Stafford     The last cohort of 35 (not the Roman 100) organizers begins in July meaning that the Big Society Community Organising Programme will have started a training cycle on more than 500 organizers in roughly three years fulfilling their charge from Westminster and the Cameron Conservative government.  The last training component ends in March 2015 …

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Going to Action Camp 2014 with England’s Community Organisers Programme

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Stafford    From the outset let us state clearly that any time more than 400 people gather in the name and claim of community organizing it is categorically a great thing by definition, and a wonder to behold. This particular gathering, Action Camp 2014, organized by Locality, the overall coordinator and a UK nonprofit, has been pretty …

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