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 …
Tag: ACORN Canada
Payday Lending Loopholes
Takoma Park Financial reform for consumers has been in deep water and drowning ever since Rep. Barney Frank nixed the White House inserted CRA protection from the bill, but in the “something is better than nothing” world we’re forced to live in these days, at the least we have to draw the line at giving …
Globe and Mail Off Base on Living Wages
Playa de Manzilla Certainly ACORN Canada didn’t expect a resounding endorsement from the conservative national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, from its editorial about the ACORN living wage campaigns that are front and center in the major city and national capital of Ottawa and in New Westminster, the important working suburb of Vancouver, and it’s …