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2011 Legislative Session Recap

As you know, it was a new world at the legislature - the first time in over a century that the Republicans were in control of both chambers, and they were in control by comfortable margins in each. And as one newspaper put it: “The GOP leadership [was] on an ideological search-and-destroy mission to erase years of progress in education, elections, public health, the courts, environmental protections, consumer protections, and, well, you name it.”

2011 Legislative Session Recap

The Truth About the Economy

If you didn't already get it, now do you get it?

The Truth About the Economy

Veto Overridden, GOP State Budget Becomes Law

In the end, Republicans cared more about their ridiculous no-tax pledge to anti-government, right-wingers than they cared about keeping a half-billion dollar investment in public education or preventing the loss of tens of thousands more jobs. And North Carolinians will be worse off for it.

Veto Overridden, GOP State Budget Becomes Law

Don’t Cut A Raw Deal, Mr. Vice President

Vice President Joe Biden is negotiating a deal on the debt ceiling with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Negotiators won’t tax the rich and big corporations but they will cut the pay of workers. That’s a “Raw Deal” any way you cut it. Sign our petition to VP Biden.

Don’t Cut A Raw Deal, Mr. Vice President

Press Clips June 14, 2011

• AFL-CIO's Trumka critical of Corbett's call for cutting pay

Press Clips June 14, 2011

NC House Republicans Push Anti-Union Amendment

Fresh off passing a budget that will result in tens of thousands of additional jobs lost in our state while undoing decades of progress which have made North Carolina the best place in the South to live, work, and get a quality public education, Republican state lawmakers are devising new ways to waste taxpayer money instead of creating jobs.

NC House Republicans Push Anti-Union Amendment