Montreal We were meeting on a cold afternoon in the new offices of the Immigrant Workers’ Center with a host of organizations and activists in Montreal much like a “focus” group of sorts on ACORN Canada and ACORN International and how they might fit and contribute to the ongoing work in this great city. People …
Category: Organizing
Urgent Need for New Labor Strategies
Toronto Before Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada Head Organizer, and I went to York University to address Dr. Stephanie Ross’ class on Worker Organizations, we me with a friend for a pleasant hour who was a senior executive of one of the largest unions in Canada. We often had this dialogue about where labor stood and …
Guest Worker Abuses
Saket Soni and the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice have beaten the drum in the more than four years since Hurricane Katrina about the abuses to south Asian guest workers pulled into the shipyards during the desperate labor supplies after the storm. Lawsuits against Signal International now coming to light reveal clearly the …