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AFL-CIO Now: The Browning-Ferris NLRB Decision Explained

AFL-CIO Now: The Browning-Ferris NLRB Decision Explained

04 Sep, 2015

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AFL-CIO Now: The Browning-Ferris NLRB Decision Explained

To paraphrase Vice President Joe Biden, the decision the National Labor Relations Board handed down last week in a dispute between a California company and its workers is a big deal for working people in North Carolina.

AFL-CIO Now: The Browning-Ferris NLRB Decision Explained

NC workers to demand creation of 'Wage Board' (9/10)

NC workers to demand creation of 'Wage Board' (9/10)

04 Sep, 2015

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NC workers to demand creation of 'Wage Board' (9/10)

Now is the time. Because fast food, home care, child care workers, and others have stood together and raised their voices, the Fight for $15 and union rights is winning across the US and across the South. Next Thursday, we're coming together to say: North Carolina is next!

NC workers to demand creation of 'Wage Board' (9/10)

Column in High Point Enterprise: ‘Labor Sabbath’ aims to build collective voice

Column in High Point Enterprise: ‘Labor Sabbath’ aims to build collective voice

04 Sep, 2015

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Column in High Point Enterprise: ‘Labor Sabbath’ aims to build collective voice

"We can no longer devalue the importance of a collective voice for workers. We can no longer hope that corporations and policy makers will do the right thing because we ask them to. We have to return to what works for working people — labor unions."

Column in High Point Enterprise: ‘Labor Sabbath’ aims to build collective voice

New "Worker Justice Center" opens in Greensboro

New "Worker Justice Center" opens in Greensboro

04 Sep, 2015

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New "Worker Justice Center" opens in Greensboro

Workers in the Piedmont Triad have a great new resource for seeking and organizing for justice in the workplace, the brand new Central Carolina Worker Justice Center, located in the Interactive Resource Center Building at 407 E. Washington Street in downtown Greensboro, and which held its soft-opening on Thursday, in time for the Labor Day holiday.

New "Worker Justice Center" opens in Greensboro

Join the 2015 Charlotte Labor Day Parade

Join the 2015 Charlotte Labor Day Parade

31 Aug, 2015

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Join the 2015 Charlotte Labor Day Parade

Come out for an "old fashioned, union made" parade when the biggest and longest-running Labor Day parade in the Carolinas returns to Charlotte in 2015, featuring local union floats and marchers as well as stepping groups, bands, and more.

Join the 2015 Charlotte Labor Day Parade

Christensen: Legislature making life harder for jobless in NC

Christensen: Legislature making life harder for jobless in NC

28 Aug, 2015

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Christensen: Legislature making life harder for jobless in NC

Instead of reversing any of their cruel cuts to jobless benefits made back in 2013 - cuts that now provide workers laid off through no fault of their own with just 12 weeks of coverage, down from 26, and pay at best just $350/week - the folks running our state plan to make it harder for workers to get any assistance while giving employer another tax cut.

Christensen: Legislature making life harder for jobless in NC