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 …
Category: Organizing
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 …
Study Establishes that People-User-Based Public Service Strategy Could Save Billions
Edinburgh Riding on the train from Stafford to Edinburgh, I started reading a pamphlet produced by Locality, the big UK nonprofit. The title, “Saving Money by Doing the Right Thing,” had caught my eye sitting on a literature table at the training conference. The upshot was a contrarian, but in our experience accurate and corrective …