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

ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice International Labor Organizing National Politics Organizing

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 …

Continue Reading

The Open Door to Accelerating “Majority” Unionization in Canada

Canada Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing Organizing

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 …

Continue Reading

Study Establishes that People-User-Based Public Service Strategy Could Save Billions

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Organizing

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 …

Continue Reading