Time is running out for the five individuals who head the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce to ask if they’ve gone too far in pushing devastating cuts to unemployment benefits, said Kevin Rogers of Action NC in a recent op-ed published by the News & Observer.
When the 2013 Labor Legislative Conference (LLC) convened in Raleigh on Tuesday, participants learned the outlook at the start of the new biennium of the North Carolina General Assembly for working people, consumers, the environment, clean elections advocates, and many other constituencies is grim, indeed.
We interviewed six North Carolinians to record their stories of life on unemployment. They told us a powerful story that should give pause to any lawmakers now pushing deep benefit cuts. May they be heard.
Join us on Saturday, February 9, 2013 in Raleigh to march behind the AFL-CIO banner and rally with thousands of other North Carolinians who want to move our state forward together and take not one step back.
Legislation that would drastically cut North Carolina’s state unemployment benefits also jeopardizes $25 million a week in federal benefits for almost 85,000 North Carolinians unemployed through no fault of their own.
We need your help. Time is running out to stop a horrifying piece of legislation affecting hundreds of thousands of jobless North Carolinians now and in the future becomes law.
With the Governor’s support, the Chamber’s scheme to have unemployed workers pay the price for a deficit created by years of business tax cuts will become law. Meanwhile, McCrory refuses to put his money where his mouth is.
True to his word, on the first day of business in the new legislative session, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis introduced one bill to put three anti-worker, anti-union amendments to our state constitution on the ballot in 2014.
This week, employees of the City of Charlotte won small victory that will make a big difference in strengthening their unions.
The Raleigh News & Observer has accused Republican state lawmakers of treating jobless workers “more as enemies than victims,” calling, in a recent editorial, their proposal to enact devastating cuts to our state’s unemployment insurance system “petty, hurtful and unnecessary.”
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.
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