Finding New Ways to Organize

ACORN Community Organizing International Labor Organizing Organizing WalMart WARN

 Toronto    Some of the most interesting meetings in my several days in Toronto were with our friends in the Canadian labor movement in Ontario, especially at the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), SEIU Canada, and the Steelworkers.  There’s a hunger to organize in most of these unions even though several of them are getting hammered by …

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Costing Wal-Mart

ACORN WalMart WARN

Tampa Sitting with the WARN staff in the office here reviewing our work with Wal-Mart throughout central Florida, it was fun to see the Google alerts coming into the blackberry indicating that we were in the news as the company feels the pain. First there was an analyst report by equity researchers at Bank of …

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