Join us and all of our partners for the 7th annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street People’s Assembly and Coalition Mass Mobilization on Saturday, February 9.
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.
Secretary Hilda Solis announced this week that she will resign her post “to begin a new future, and return to the people and places I love and that have inspired and shaped my life.” We will miss Hilda Solis.
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.
The NC State AFL-CIO and Central Labor Councils are teaming up to hold local legislative breakfast and lunch meetings before our state legislative conference in February to connect members and their families with local lawmakers.
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.
On December 10, dozens of workers, retirees, students, and veterans in downtown Raleigh joined others gathered in Greensboro and in Asheville to light candles and stand vigil outside congressional offices while their neighbors and faith leaders put the national debate over tax cuts for the rich and program cuts for the rest in personal terms.
Join the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate, Working America, to deliver a stack of cards calling for Sen. Hagan to end massive tax cuts for the rich and protect the programs which protect the rest of us.
It’s an 8 minute video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic inequality. Things go downhill in a happy and prosperous land after the rich decide they don’t want to pay taxes anymore.
Robert Reich lays out the what, why and how of the Fiscal “Cliff”, the showdown in Congress that Republicans created to demand painful cuts in vital domestic programs in exchange for raising taxes on the top 2%.
Join us at 4:30 PM on Monday when working families will hold vigil outside congressional offices in Raleigh, Greensboro, and Asheville to call for an end to tax breaks for the richest 2% and, using personal stories, tell why Congress must not cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits.
Republican lawmakers have revealed a plan, negotiated in secret with the Chamber of Commerce, to let employers off the hook for $2.5 billion in unemployment insurance debt by making jobless workers pay instead.
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