June 25, 2018
Labor Update for Week of June 25, 2018
Our weekly email blast with updates from our blog, news that works for working people, and upcoming actions and events.
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Read MoreWorkers and advocates celebrated this week as Winston-Salem City Council members voted unanimously to approve a minimum wage of $15 an hour or more for city workers by 2021. The move shows growing momentum in North Carolina, following similar victories in Greensboro, Raleigh, Durham and Wake County.
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June 21, 2018
NC State AFL-CIO 61st Annual Convention, Sept. 20-21st
Read MoreOur 61st Annual Convention will be held at the Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown in Raleigh, NC on Thursday and Friday, September 20-21, 2018. Registration will begin at 7:00pm on Wed. (9/19) and continue at 8:00am on Thurs. (9/20). The Annual Convention will convene at 9:00am on Thurs., (9/20).
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June 18, 2018
We’re Hiring a Paid Intern for Fall 2018!
Read MoreWe’re looking for young people with imagination, smarts, energy, grit, and the skills and drive to help us win victories for working as our paid fall intern. Pay is $16/hour. The deadline to apply for Fall 2018 is Friday, April 17th.
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Read MoreIn a first for North Carolina, working people from across economic sectors will get to challenge candidates and elected officials on ways to strengthen the freedom to join together in unions at a town hall this Thursday, June 14th, in Durham.
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May 28, 2018
Labor Update for Week of May 28, 2018
Read MoreOur weekly email blast with updates from our blog, news that works for working people, and upcoming actions and events.
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Read MoreOn May 16th, tens of thousands of teachers, staff, parents, and students marched on Raleigh to pressure state lawmakers to provide funding for the schools North Carolina students deserve, and North Carolina’s labor federation was there to lend a hand — delivering food in advance for Wake County students, raising money to bus folks to Raleigh, keeping marchers happy and hydrated, and adding our voice of support for the largest collective action taken by North Carolina public employees in recent history.
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Read MoreUnions of working people in Central Labor Councils across North Carolina endorsed 52 local, state, and federal candidates with primary elections in May and helped propel 35 of those candidates to victory and a spot on the general election ballot in November, including big wins in 3 congressional districts.
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Read MoreOur students deserve better, and by standing up and standing together, we will ensure they get better.
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Read MoreThe NC State AFL-CIO delivered four pallets of food donated by the Food Bank and sorted into 500 “weekend packs” to Ligon Middle School in Raleigh for distribution by Wake County teachers to students in need across Wake County today.
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Read MoreThe mother of one of 174 people who died on the job in North Carolina in 2016 spoke to reporters and community members at a Workers’ Memorial Day service outside the Old State Capitol last Friday where attendees rang a memorial bell 174 times and called on the N.C. Department of Labor to do more to prevent workplace fatalities and to show respect to the victims’ families.
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May 1, 2018
Attend Raising Wages #15forNC Lobby Day May 22nd
Read MoreOn May 22nd, the Raising Wages NC coalition is hosting a statewide lobby day to put our elected officials on notice that the time is now for state lawmakers to raise the minimum wage for North Carolina’s working families to $15 an hour.
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April 24, 2018
Community to Honor 174 People Who Died on the Job in 2016
Read MoreLocal workers, labor and faith leaders, and family members will gather Friday morning on the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Raleigh for an annual interfaith Workers’ Memorial Day service to ring a bell 174 times in remembrance of the 174 people known to have died on the job in 2016 — 24 more than the year before — and to call on the N.C. Department of Labor to do more to prevent workplace fatalities.
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April 16, 2018
Labor Update for April 16, 2018
Read MoreOur weekly email blast with updates from our blog, news that works for working people, and upcoming actions and events.
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April 13, 2018
Remember the Dead at 2018 Workers Memorial Day Service
Read MoreJoin us at 10 AM Friday, April 27th in Raleigh for a press conference and memorial service during which participants will toll a bell 174 times – once for each person in North Carolina who died while working for a better life in 2016 – and will call for the state Department of Labor to do more to prevent workplace injuries and fatalities.
