Fighting for Worker Heat Protection

a community voice Climate Change Labor Local 100 Tenants Workers

            New Orleans        Globally, more than 30 cities participated in ACORN’s Beat the Heat Day this summer.  Thermometers are clear, regardless of climate naysayers, it’s hotter outside than it has ever been.  Tenants need protection and many have joined ACORN campaigns in various countries like Canada and France to demand retrofits to deal with …

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Permanently Part-time

Labor Unions Workers

            New Orleans       It almost seems quaint to remember that some decades ago, the rise of “contingent” workers was seen as a big deal and an emerging crisis for US workers.  Countless studies, books, and ad hoc coalitions arrived to look at the problem.  These were workers essentially on-call without full-time schedules or benefits …

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