State House Bill 589, which would require voters to present a photo ID before being allowed to cast their ballots, will be voted on in the House next week. We need you to call your state representative and tell him or her to vote ‘NO’ on HB 589.
Faced with the grim reality of North Carolina politics, this Tax Day, the NC State AFL-CIO arranged for working people to get some quality escapism and, with it, one way to settle the score between the People and the Powerful – even if it had to be done outside the political arena and inside the ring!
MaryBe McMillan delivered a rousing speech who gathered at a local Raleigh church before walking over to the legislature on Jones Street, together. In her remarks, MaryBe reminded Lobby Day participants that, “The power is not in this building on Jones Street, brothers and sisters. The power is in our hands!”
What does over $100,000 buy you? If you’re Art Pope, it buys you a state Senator and a bevy of bills to restrict ballot access and make it even easier to buy elections.
Join working families on March 20 for a national day of actions, at rallies and press conferences, to demand Congress repeal the sequester and work for solutions that work for working people.
Bob Geary wrote about North Carolina Republicans’ war on unions for his column in the Triangle-area publication Indy Week, in which he asks if Republican leaders really want to remind working-class voters what their party has been doing to them since assuming power.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 will go down in foolish infamy as the day North Carolina’s new governor signed into law spiteful legislation that turns down a $10 billion investment by the federal government in North Carolina’s economy and medical coverage for up to half a million more North Carolina residents.
Here’s the bottom line. Pat McCrory makes money if Duke Energy makes money. Now, SB 10 would let him appoint Duke’s regulators who could then approve Duke’s double-digit hike in your electrical rates. We say that’s malarkey!
When the 2013 Labor Legislative Conference (LLC) convened in Raleigh on Tuesday, participants learned the outlook at the start of the new biennium of the North Carolina General Assembly for working people, consumers, the environment, clean elections advocates, and many other constituencies is grim, indeed.
Pat McCrory has been governor of North Carolina for one week, but he has managed to break his promise to clean up Raleigh and keep special interests out of state government, says Progress NC, which has launched a website – www.paytoplaypat.com – to keep score on McCrory’s selling out of North Carolina.
At the opening of the 2013 legislative session, during his speech to House lawmakers, Speaker Thom Tillis (R) said he intends to protect Right to Work (for less) and to keep North Carolina the least unionized state in the United States.
While Pat McCrory privately took the Governor’s oath of office behind closed doors, locked inside the State Capitol away from the public, McCrory’s Puppet Master was sworn in at a public ceremony as North Carolina’s new Shadow Governor and the state’s real chief executive.
Obscure tactics–like the “silent” filibuster–allow individual Senators to hold the nation’s work hostage while cutting backroom deals. And the problem is getting worse.
McCrory’s Puppet Master will be sworn in at a public ceremony as North Carolina’s new Shadow Governor and the state’s real chief executive at a ‘coronation’ on Saturday.
A judge in Wake County has thrown out a controversial law passed by Republican state lawmakers in a surprise late-night vote one year ago taking away from all public school employees their ability to have association dues deducted from their paychecks.
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