Posted by Jeremy on April 29, 2013
Celebrate May Day 2013 in Raleigh
Triangle Jobs with Justice would like to invite everyone to take part in a May Day 2013 celebration and mobilization in Raleigh, NC.
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Posted by Jeremy on April 19, 2013
Canadians show U.S. how to fight Right to Work (video)
Read MoreAward-winning Canadian director Bruce McDonald is sending a message to Ontario politicians behaving badly with a clever YouTube video that should resonate with every union member in North Carolina. There are no free rides in life.
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Posted by Jeremy on April 12, 2013
Powerful speech by MaryBe McMillan at HK on J Lobby Day
Read MoreMaryBe 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!”
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Posted by Jeremy on April 12, 2013
U.S. Labor History Comes Alive in Greensboro, Sundays 4/21-5/26
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that the annual Spring labor history series sponsored by N.C. Triad Jobs with Justice returns for 2013! This year the theme will be “In the Current Crisis – The U.S. Labor Movement Fights Back!”
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Posted by Jeremy on April 5, 2013
Legacy of Local 22 to be honored on April 20 in Winston-Salem
Read MoreOn April 20, 2013 – seventy years later – a coalition of labor, faith, and community members will unveil a commemorative state marker to celebrate tobacco Local 22 and the anniversary of their historic sit-down strike that sparked a wave of interracial union organizing in the Jim Crow South.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 28, 2013
Let’s get ready to rumble!
Read MoreNorth Carolinians, tired of paying the costs for the lack of tax fairness – the root cause of austerity politics in Congress and tax changes on Jones Street – will finally get a chance to settle the score between the people and the powerful when champions for both sides face off at a public showdown on Bicentennial Mall at 12:30 PM on Monday, April 15th – Tax Day.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 22, 2013
Rally to save six-day delivery on March 24th
Read MoreLetter carriers, other postal employees, and their families will rally in Charlotte and in Raleigh this Sunday against an unlawful edict by the Post Master General that would end Saturday mail delivery and add thousands more Americans to unemployment rolls at a time when our fragile economic recovery is not secured.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 22, 2013
National Farmworker Awareness Week 2013
Read MoreNational Farmworker Awareness Week (NFAW) will be celebrated in the United States beginning on Sunday, March 24th and running through Cesar Chavez’ birthday on Saturday, March 31st. There are plenty of ways you can join the celebration.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 15, 2013
National day of action for sequester repeal (3/20)
Read MoreJoin 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.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 8, 2013
AFL-CIO gets in storytelling high-gear with @Work website
Read MoreThe national AFL-CIO has launched an innovative, brand new section of its website – www.aflcio.org/atWork – that focuses on telling the story of what unions and union members do best and how people working together through their unions contribute to society in ways beyond just providing good jobs with good benefits.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 8, 2013
Liz Shuler makes case for workers’ rights in NC
Read MoreNational AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler came to town this week for stops in Raleigh, at Duke, and at UNC Chapel Hill on Monday and Tuesday to talk about how workers’ rights are good for workers and good for business and why “right-to-work” for less is wrong for North Carolina.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 8, 2013
Greensboro firefighters win dues checkoff
Read MoreWe got this great piece of labor news from Greensboro this week. On Tuesday, the city council voted 6-3 to allow firefighters to have voluntary union dues deducted from their paychecks!
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Posted by Jeremy on March 1, 2013
Save the date to Save Our Postal Service (3/24)
Read MoreThe National Association of Letter Carriers is taking action to rally support to save America’s Postal Service and Saturday delivery with rallies in Raleigh and Charlotte on Sunday, March 24. There are over 35,000 good-paying, union jobs at stake.
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Posted by Jeremy on March 1, 2013
Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions
Read MoreAfter tobacco farmworker advocates rallied outside the corporate headquarters of The Pantry, Inc. in Cary, NC, today, asking that company’s CEO to keep up the pressure on Reynolds to do right by its tobacco field workers, our campaign for justice will continue with other actions this month and beyond.
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Posted by Jeremy on February 22, 2013
Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary
Read MoreFLOC, the union of farmworkers in North Carolina, will rally in Cary, NC on March 1 and deliver a letter to the CEO of the Pantry, Inc. to urge that company to pressure Reynolds American to ensure the labor rights of farmworkers are respected.
