Job Summary:
ACORN is hiring a full time community organizer in Montreal to help our growing membership base win crucial campaigns for rent control, ending tenant displacement, and ending systemic racism.
What do ACORN organizers do?
They go door-to-door, block-to-block, city-to-city, listening to community residents’ concerns, and connecting what they want to see changed to effective mass-based action. Organizing protests, developing campaigns, listening, and working closely with our membership.
Of course, COVID-19 has changed this a bit. We do more phone calls now to our extensive lists, have developed digital strategies to build those lists, and are doing more street canvassing and petitioning in the neighbourhoods we are organizing in.
No experience required, BUT applicants must be interested in fighting for economic and social justice in Quebec and be able to explain that in a quick cover letter. Do not apply without a cover letter.
What is ACORN?
We are a tenants’ union. We are a disability action union. We are a worker’s union. We are a consumer's union. We are whatever our members are. Our members pay dues so that the organization can be sustainable and not dependent on outside funding from labour, government, or foundations. Each dues member has a vote, and only members speak for the organization. Our members get elected board of directors and have the authority to set the policy and determine the tactics of the union.
ACORN is a multi-issue, mass based union of low-to-moderate income people. The purpose of the union is to give low-to-moderate income people power so that they have the ability to have their voices effectively heard at the highest levels in the country. With chapters across the region, province, and across the country, ACORN is able to be both a local-based union winning local campaigns, as well as a large organization combining forces to fight national corporations and governments that are at the root of most of our problems.