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Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

01 Mar, 2013

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Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

After tobacco farmworker advocates rallied outside the corporate headquarters of The Pantry, Inc. in Cary, NC, today, asking that company's CEO to keep up the pressure on Reynolds to do right by its tobacco field workers, our campaign for justice will continue with other actions this month and beyond.

Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

22 Feb, 2013

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Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

Here's the bottom line. Pat McCrory makes money if Duke Energy makes money. Now, SB 10 would let him appoint Duke's regulators who could then approve Duke's double-digit hike in your electrical rates. We say that's malarkey!

Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

22 Feb, 2013

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Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

The North Carolina Justice Center is raising the alarm about possible repeal of our state's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for working families - AND - North Carolina's estate tax on multi-million-dollar estates as bills to do both advance in the state legislature.

Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary

Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary

22 Feb, 2013

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Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary

FLOC, the union of farmworkers in North Carolina, will rally in Cary, NC on March 1 and deliver a letter to the CEO of the Pantry, Inc. to urge that company to pressure Reynolds American to ensure the labor rights of farmworkers are respected.

Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary

Act FAST to keep loan sharks out of North Carolina

Act FAST to keep loan sharks out of North Carolina

22 Feb, 2013

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Act FAST to keep loan sharks out of North Carolina

We are in grave danger of payday lenders - "the same old rip-off we ran out of our state years ago" - returning to North Carolina. Senate Bill 89, to allow payday lenders back into the state, is moving fast. The bill could pass the state Senate any day now.

Act FAST to keep loan sharks out of North Carolina

Only bullies kick people while they are down

Only bullies kick people while they are down

19 Feb, 2013

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Only bullies kick people while they are down

On Tuesday, Governor Pat McCrory signed into law the what the National Employment Law Project (NELP) called the most severe cuts to unemployment insurance made by any state in the nation, in the state with the 5th highest unemployment rate in the nation at 9.2% with over 400,000 people looking for work.

Only bullies kick people while they are down