Orlando WARN and all of our allies went to the first reading and hearing in Orlando for the Big Box Ordinance in the County on Tuesday night. I had come in for meetings with the staff and, originally, for the hearing until it was scheduled for the evening rather than the morning at the last …
Category: WalMart
Writing on the Wal, Not Everyone Likes the Mart!
Buenos Aires ACORN’s India FDI Watch Campaign moved to a fever pitch this week with press conferences, meetings, and rallies in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi to protest with scores of our allies among the parties, traders, unions, hawkers, and shopkeepers, the 24-hour India visit of Michael Duke of Wal-Mart with Bharti to discuss the terms …
Argentina Workers Win on Sundays!
Colonia, Uruguay From the point I landed the ACORN Argentina organizers have been briefing me on the exciting developments with the big multi-national retail supermarket chains, Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Seems at mid-week their union surprisingly led a large march of the workers from the stores into the city of Buenos Aires to protest the fact …