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NC Churches advocate for raising wages, union rights

NC Churches advocate for raising wages, union rights

13 Mar, 2015

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NC Churches advocate for raising wages, union rights

We love this new post written by Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate for the NC Council of Churches. If you believe in our agenda or raising wages and empowering workers, we think you will love it too.

NC Churches advocate for raising wages, union rights

Students and workers unite in the Fight for $15 (3/23)

Students and workers unite in the Fight for $15 (3/23)

13 Mar, 2015

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Students and workers unite in the Fight for $15 (3/23)

Two years ago, people who work as cooks and cashiers in fast food restaurants launched a movement to raise their wages to $15/hour and win the right to form a union without retaliation. Now that movement is growing.

Students and workers unite in the Fight for $15 (3/23)

Support the Durham Living Wage Project

13 Mar, 2015

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13 Mar, 2015

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Support the Durham Living Wage Project

This week the Durham Living Wage Project launched an ambitious crowdfunding campaign to raise $20,000 in 30 days to build what has been an all-volunteer effort into a sustainable project to raise wages by certifying employers who pay their workers a liveable wage in the Bull City.

Support the Durham Living Wage Project

NC women mark Women's History Month with Norma Rae (3/14)

NC women mark Women's History Month with Norma Rae (3/14)

10 Mar, 2015

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NC women mark Women's History Month with Norma Rae (3/14)

NC Women United will commemorate International Women's Month on Saturday, March 14 in Raleigh with a free screening of Norma Rae, which stars Sally Field and is based on the life of Crystal Lee Sutton, a textile worker at J.P. Stevens from Roanoke Rapids, NC who was fired from her job for trying to help her coworker form a union.

NC women mark Women's History Month with Norma Rae (3/14)

ADT Locks Out NC Security Techs

04 Mar, 2015

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04 Mar, 2015

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ADT Locks Out NC Security Techs

Employees – installation specialists and service technicians who provide home and business security service – voted for representation by the IBEW in 2013 and have been negotiating for a first contract ever since.

ADT Locks Out NC Security Techs

Labor movement is united in opposition to "Fast Track"

Labor movement is united in opposition to "Fast Track"

04 Mar, 2015

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Labor movement is united in opposition to "Fast Track"

For the first time ever, the leaders of every major union in the United States - including unions in both the AFL-CIO and Change to Win federations - have united in opposition to "fast tracking" dangerous trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Labor movement is united in opposition to "Fast Track"