Charlotte: With all of the expansion of new offices in ACORN the national board has had a policy in recent years to meet in new offices in order to see the progress and give the local leaders a shot in the arm and some general solidarity and encouragement. In recent years spring and fall has …
Category: Labor Organizing
Canada Goes Wild
Tampa: It is not every day that we get to make someone happy, but especially when it is so easy to do so, I can not resist! In Canada the Government is falling. A nasty bit of business where it appears money was diverted from the federal coffers to that of the ruling party and …
Making History for Home Childcare Workers
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 …