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  • Charlotte Labor Day Parade and Carolina Fest

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    The annual Charlotte Labor Day Parade will be held Monday, September 3rd at 10 am. The parade honors the accomplishments of organized labor in our country, our region, and in our community.

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  • AFL-CIO supports boycott of Palermo’s pizza

    Show your solidarity with the striking workers of Palermo’s by honoring the boycott until the company ends its unlawful efforts to interfere with the right of its workers to organize and bargain for a safer workplace and a better life..

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  • State AFL-CIO VP, J. David Cox, elected AFGE National President

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    Winning election to the top post at AFGE on the first ballot is only the latest (and greatest) recognition of J. David’s career of service to military veterans, to federal employees, and to advancing the rights of all workers.

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  • Offshoring jobs continues to drag down N.C.’s economy

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    A recent brief by the Budget and Tax Center underlines just how serious a problem offshoring has been for North Carolina’s economy. Without all the losses from corporations shipping our jobs to China since 2001 and to Mexico in just one year, 2010, unemployment in North Carolina would be down almost to where it was before the Great Recession.

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  • The Choice We Face this November 6th

    For those who could use a reminder of the choice we face this November as a nation of workers and union members, the Building and Construction Trades Division, AFL-CIO, released a must-watch video this week, and it’s a knockout.

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  • What to do when Mitt Romney comes calling in N.C.

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    Mitt Romney has been outsourcing jobs to China and offshoring money to Switzerland even as he claims he would be a job creator and good steward of our economy as President. Do you believe him?

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  • Organize Sitel

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    Some 600 call center workers, employees of the customer service provider Sitel in Asheville, got a big boost this week in their struggle to organize a union and bargain a contract for a better life.

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  • State AFL-CIO Convention in Raleigh Sept. 13-14

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    The Fifty-Fifth Annual Convention of the NC State AFL-CIO will return to the state capital for two days in September to get energized and mobilize for the final push in our Labor 2012 campaign. Hotel and early-bird registration deadlines are this month.

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  • Medicare and Medicaid 47 years later: still working for N.C.

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    On Friday, July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act of 1965, creating Medicare and Medicaid. Forty-seven years later, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are still working for the people of North Carolina.

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  • Learning, bonding, and empowerment at Labor School ’12

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    Almost seventy members from nearly two dozen affiliates attended Carolina Labor School, this year. The members of the Class of 2012 were as diverse as the shops from which they came.

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  • Sen. Richard Burr votes to block Bring Jobs Home Act

    Last week and at a time when millions of Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, Senator Richard Burr voted with Mitt Romney and big corporate interests to put mega-profits over good America jobs.

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  • What does Mitt Romney think of unions?

    Should a Romney Administration take over the federal government, appointing anti-union cronies to the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor – people who will make it their mission to undermine labor law and debilitate workers’ power – will be their top priority.

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  • LS Class of 2012 tribute to Woody Guthrie

    Carolina Labor School Class of 2012 began class, today, with a tribute to Woody Guthrie by singing his most famous song, “This Land is Your Land”. This year is Woody’s centennial.

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  • What’s at stake in the 2012 election?

    In this short video, Robert Reich lays out what’s at stake in the 2012 Presidential Election. It’s progressives versus regressives, and the regressives have a 4-part plan to sabotage America.

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  • Ask Kay Hagan and Richard Burr to Bring Jobs Home!

    Call your senators now at 888-659-9401 and tell them to support the Bring Jobs Home Act. Our primary focus should be helping working families—not Big Business—by creating and saving good jobs at home and supporting the patriotic companies that create jobs in the United States.

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