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ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center (ACLOC)
What is ACLOC?
ACLOC is an organization dedicated to bring together the best practices in organizing from both labor unions and community groups. Founded in 2005, ACLOC carries on ACORN’s long history of partnering with organized labor to build greater power for low and moderate-income people in the community and at work. ACLOC is committed to increasing organizing capacity to build strong, effective partnerships with unions and other community organizations that share our vision of a united movement that advances the agenda of low and moderate-income people. ACLOC has partnered with unions and community groups to organize Child Care providers, City Employees, Security Officers, Grocery workers, Independent Truck Drivers, Janitors, Home Care Workers, Nursing and Home Workers. ACLOC played a vital role in recruiting 32,000 Childcare providers in our first year of organizing, which to date has led to recognition for nearly 120,000 childcare providers with our partner Unions.
Training and Administration
• In Canada: ACLOC hired and provided the initial three weeks of training for new organizers for SEIU Canada. Those recruits who successfully complete this basic training are then recommended as candidates for Organizer Apprentice positions in SEIU Canada. Full-time training is provided on-site in Canada by an ACLOC supervisor, and all administration of the apprentices’ employment is provided by ACLOC.
• Throughout the United States: ACLOC provides administrative services for SEIU International’s Organizer Apprentices. Those who complete the initial stage of training are then hired on full time onto SEIU and sent into SEIU’s WAVE program for more advanced training.
• In Houston, ACLOC has partnered with SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign to recruit and train organizers to help workers form a union and fight for recognition.
Organizing Partnerships
• In New York, ACLOC is partnering with the United Federation of Teachers to organize 50,000 home daycare providers.
• In Boston, ACLOC is working with SEIU Local 888 to provide community support for home daycare providers. The campaign is to involve the parents of children in daycare so that they can demand better pay and conditions for the people who are taking care of their children.
• In Arizona, ACLOC is partnering with Arizona ACORN and the UFCW to put pressure on the Basha’s grocery store chain to both allow workers to organize and to make improvements in service for the low-income neighborhoods surrounding the stores.
Other projects
The Center is constantly looking for opportunities to develop more partnerships, whether the job is working to build community support for campaigns, running organizing drives, helping train organizers, or providing administrative support services. If your organization could benefit from our training, administrative or organizing programs, please contact us to discuss how we can work together to strengthen organizing, and strengthen our mutual efforts to organize low- and moderate-income people wherever they are.
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