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Join national day of action against ALEC Feb 29
24 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
Occupy Winston-Salem is supporting a national day of action on February 29 to call attention to the corporations that fund ALEC. They’re calling it Occupy the Corporations / #Feb29, and we are calling on our members and others who value work and condemn greed to join us.
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Art Pope’s money pays to bring extremist messengers to Raleigh
24 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
The Art Pope money machine is paying to bring a host of right-wing extremists to speak at this year’s Civitas-organized Conservative Leadership Conference in Raleigh. Join us at noon on Saturday, March 3 to welcome the delegates.
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How unions helped build a middle class for workers in the U.S.A.
24 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
Unions have been around for more than a century, and they’ve done more good for America’s working people — union and non-union — and have gotten less credit for it than any institution in the United States. An essay by Harry Kelber.
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Special event in Salisbury for Int’l Women’s Day (3/8)
24 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
Entitled, “The Fabric of Hope & Resistance: NC Women Workers on Strike”, the presentation will include real stories of real North Carolina women and trade unionists who joined the age-old struggle for dignity at work and a better life for themselves and their families in the Old North State.
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Number of kids living in high-poverty areas of NC soars
23 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
According to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the number of North Carolina children living in high-poverty areas has increased almost 200 percent to 212,000. That number is eight times the increase nationwide since the year 2000.
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Public protests Feb. 16 special legislative session
18 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / 1 Comment
The most recent “special” session of the North Carolina General Assembly on February 16 accomplished literally nothing at great expense to taxpayers, but members of the public, still wary of what their out-of-control state legislature might do since its bout of midnight madness back in January, rallied outside the legislative building just in case.
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The incredible double standard of two-faced Thom Tillis
18 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
After our Rein Them In rally ahead of an expensive, do-nothing “special” session of the North Carolina General Assembly on Thursday, Feb. 16, about 50-70 people filed into the building to deliver messages printed on a simple sheet of paper to Speaker Thom Tillis. What happened next was another example of how out of control our state legislature has gotten.
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H.K. on J. 2012 in pictures
17 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
Were you at the 6th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) march and rally? Lots of people were. Maybe we took your picture!
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Take the Pledge, “I support American Jobs”
17 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
In the wake of the bankruptcy of American Airlines, 13,000 people will lose their jobs and its employees’ will lose their pension. Over a hundred workers at RDU International airport will be affected, and their local union is asking for our help. Show your solidarity with American workers by taking the pledge, “I support American jobs.”
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Help bring justice to North Carolina’s tobacco fields
17 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
We aren’t asking Kangaroo Chairman of the Board Ed Holman for the world. We are only asking him to join a conversation that would mean the world to thousands of his fellow human beings. Won’t you join us in sending him that message?
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Send a valentine that matters
10 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
Maybe Valentines Day is a made-up holiday to boost the sale of flowers, cards, and candy, but this year you can send a valentine that matters – and help farmworkers in the process.
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“Rein Them In” rally will mark legislature’s return Feb. 16
10 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
Join us from 11 am to 12 noon on February 16 for a rally to mark the first day legislators are back in Raleigh since their midnight attack on workers rights.
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UNC Board of Governors votes to allow tuition hikes
10 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / 1 Comment
The cuts last year imposed by the state legislature and the hikes of tuition and fees approved today by the UNC governors are a reminder of just how far our state has fallen from living up to its constitutional obligation to the people of North Carolina.
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At town hall, Thom Tillis blames teachers for his attacks
04 Feb 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
About 60 union members and community activists showed up at Gaston Community College in Belmont, NC to welcome North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis to another of his “Divide & Conquer” town halls. It was Tillis’ first town hall appearance since holding a surprise midnight session of the General Assembly on January 5 to strip teachers of their rights.
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Good news for UAW 5287 and Thomas Built Buses
27 Jan 2012 by Jeremy / No Comments
The workers at the Thomas Built Buses manufacturing plant in High Point, who are represented by United Auto Workers Local 5287, got some good news earlier this month. Thomas has recalled 112 laid-off workers to meet demand.
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