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Governor Vetoes Bill that Would Undermine UI Program
01 Jul 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
Gov. Perdue vetoed a bill this week that would have destroyed the Employment Security Commission and cost North Carolina’s unemployment benefits program millions of dollars in federal money while raising unemployment tax rates on businesses.
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N.C. House Republicans Cash-In on Selling Out North Carolina
01 Jul 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
About 50 advocates for democracy, workers’ and civil rights, public education, and the environment turned out for an hour and a half in the late afternoon heat and raised a right-good ruckus at a GOP fundraiser this week.
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Collective Bargaining: Real People. Real Impact.
24 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
As multiple states around the country attempt to undercut workers’ rights and pass anti-collective bargaining laws, the AFL-CIO and Laughing Liberally have teamed up to produce a series of videos illustrating the importance of collective bargaining. The videos coincide with the launch of a new website, collectivebargainingfacts.com.
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Republican Legislature Legalizes Corporate Tax Evasion
24 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
North Carolina’s revenue problems will get worse thanks to a bill rushed through the Republican-led General Assembly at the end of session.
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Airport Screeners Choose AFGE, AFL-CIO as their Union
24 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
Transportation Security Officers have chosen the AFL-CIO affiliate American Federation of Government Employees in a runoff election with the National Treasury Employees union to be their exclusive bargaining representative.
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NLRB Rule Change Would Streamline Elections Process
24 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
The National Labor Relations Board has proposed a set of modest changes to the rules governing the process for voting on union representation. If adopted by the NLRB, these modest changes would modernize and streamline its representation election procedures and restore some balance and fairness to the system.
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2011 Legislative Session Recap
17 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
As you know, it was a new world at the legislature – the first time in over a century that the Republicans were in control of both chambers, and they were in control by comfortable margins in each. And as one newspaper put it: “The GOP leadership [was] on an ideological search-and-destroy mission to erase years of progress in education, elections, public health, the courts, environmental protections, consumer protections, and, well, you name it.”
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The Truth About the Economy
17 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
If you didn’t already get it, now do you get it?
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Veto Overridden, GOP State Budget Becomes Law
17 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
In the end, Republicans cared more about their ridiculous no-tax pledge to anti-government, right-wingers than they cared about keeping a half-billion dollar investment in public education or preventing the loss of tens of thousands more jobs. And North Carolinians will be worse off for it.
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Don’t Cut A Raw Deal, Mr. Vice President
17 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
Vice President Joe Biden is negotiating a deal on the debt ceiling with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Negotiators won’t tax the rich and big corporations but they will cut the pay of workers. That’s a “Raw Deal” any way you cut it. Sign our petition to VP Biden.
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NC House Republicans Push Anti-Union Amendment
08 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
Fresh off passing a budget that will result in tens of thousands of additional jobs lost in our state while undoing decades of progress which have made North Carolina the best place in the South to live, work, and get a quality public education, Republican state lawmakers are devising new ways to waste taxpayer money instead of creating jobs.
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Breaking News! Unemployment Benefits To Be Restored!
03 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / 1 Comment
Early this afternoon Governor Bev Perdue signed Executive Order 93 to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the 47,000 North Carolinians that have been living without them since April.
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NC Alliance for Retired Americans 2011 Convention
03 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
On Wednesday, June 1 the NC ARA held it Fifth Biennial Convention in Clemmons, NC.
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Take Action Against the Pending State Budget
03 Jun 2011 by Jeremy / 1 Comment
On Thursday afternoon, the North Carolina Senate voted 31-17 along party lines to send the 19.7 billion spending plan to the House. G.O.P. lawmakers are calling it a negotiated compromise with the House, which is expected to vote on it today and tomorrow, where it will reach Governor Perdue’s desk by Saturday.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius Visits Raleigh!
27 May 2011 by Jeremy / No Comments
Last Tuesday morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took time to sit down with seniors and retirees to talk about the Affordable Care Act at the AARP-Raleigh office.
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