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 19, 2013
Make the call against Voter ID
Read MoreState House Bill 589, which would require voters to present a photo ID before being allowed to cast their ballots, will be voted on in the House next week. We need you to call your state representative and tell him or her to vote ‘NO’ on HB 589.
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Posted by Jeremy on April 19, 2013
A Fair Fight for tax fairness on Tax Day (video)
Read MoreFaced with the grim reality of North Carolina politics, this Tax Day, the NC State AFL-CIO arranged for working people to get some quality escapism and, with it, one way to settle the score between the People and the Powerful – even if it had to be done outside the political arena and inside the ring!
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Posted by Jeremy on April 17, 2013
Workers’ Memorial Day observance in Raleigh (4/26)
Read MoreWorkers’ Memorial Day is an international day of remembrance for workers who have lost their lives on the job. Please join us outside the NC Department of Labor to call for safe jobs for North Carolina workers.
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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 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 April 5, 2013
The Art Pope-backed plan to rig all future elections
Read MoreWhat does over $100,000 buy you? If you’re Art Pope, it buys you a state Senator and a bevy of bills to restrict ballot access and make it even easier to buy elections.
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Posted by Jeremy on April 5, 2013
Governor plans to sellout Medicaid recipients
Read MoreHow do you take North Carolina’s model Medicaid program – the highly efficient one with the lowest rate of spending growth in the nation, run by the award-winning non-profit Community Care North Carolina – and make a buck off of it? By selling it to Wall Street!
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Posted by Jeremy on April 5, 2013
State Senators doing bankers’ bidding, AGAIN!
Read MoreBetween SB 89 and this new monstrosity, SB 489, it would seem that state senators care more about bankers’ ability to trap their constituents in a never-ending debt cycle than about governing for the good of their constituents.
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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 15, 2013
Could Republican’s war on unions backfire?
Read MoreBob Geary wrote about North Carolina Republicans’ war on unions for his column in the Triangle-area publication Indy Week, in which he asks if Republican leaders really want to remind working-class voters what their party has been doing to them since assuming power.
