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From our Blog
North Carolina Unions Added 16,000 Members in 2017
“The growth in union membership shows that working people understand the power we have when we join together,” said MaryBe McMillan, President of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO.
Twitter Power Academy FREE Intro Webinar Rescheduled for Feb. 13th
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News & Observer Editorial: Time to Raise the Wage!
“North Carolina’s refusal to increase its minimum wage is beginning to look as heartless and thoughtless as its refusal to expand Medicaid,” says The News & Observer in an editorial that rejects as unfounded the canard that raising the wage will hurt businesses or employment and says keeping it at $7.25 “doesn’t improve the state’s economy and only protects jobs barely worth having.” Read more.North Carolina Labor History Exhibit Available for Show
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