Preventing the ACORN Tragedy
Chicago First in a session with Kim Bobo and her talented staff at Interfaith Worker Justice and then with the great immigration rights organizers, Josh Hoyt and Lawrence Benito and some of their...
View ArticleThe AFL-CIO Continues to Step Forward with “New Labor”
New Orleans John Hiatt, now the AFL-CIO chief of staff under Richard Trumka, and previously general counsel under John Sweeney, was the lead speaker on an early morning plenary before the United...
View ArticleProgress on Payday Lending and the Digital Divide in Canada
Chicago Like clockwork the ACORN Canada staff continues the tradition of mid-December YE/YB or Year End / Year Begin meetings. Getting snowbound in Montreal one year and caught again another year...
View ArticleIRS “Safe Harbor” Allowing Tax Cheating and Wage Theft
Contact Workers at the Smithsonian protest in 2013 New Orleans It’s not news that wage theft and the problems of mis-classification of workers as independent subcontractors is rampant. What I...
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