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Smoky Mountain News Profile of USW Local 507: "A seat at the table: Organized labor remains strong in Haywood County"
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Smoky Mountain News Profile of USW Local 507: "A seat at the table: Organized labor remains strong in Haywood County"

For over forty years now, successive generations of millworkers and members of United Steelworkers Smoky Mountain Local 507 have used their freedom to join together in union to organize and ensure shared prosperity in the tiny mountain town of Canton, North Carolina.

Smoky Mountain News Profile of USW Local 507: "A seat at the table: Organized labor remains strong in Haywood County"

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Creative Loafing Charlotte Takes "A Look at Labor Conditions and the New South's Historic Ties to Organization"
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Creative Loafing Charlotte Takes "A Look at Labor Conditions and the New South's Historic Ties to Organization"

Worker organizing past and present is the cover story of the Labor Day 2018 issue of Creative Loafing Charlotte, featuring quotes from North Carolina State AFL-CIO President MaryBe McMillan, IBEW Local 379 President and state AFL-CIO Vice President Scott Thrower, and Ben Lee, chairman of the Charlotte Labor Day Parade Committee.

Creative Loafing Charlotte Takes "A Look at Labor Conditions and the New South's Historic Ties to Organization"

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Tefere Gebre’s American journey: From refugee camp to labor leader
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Tefere Gebre’s American journey: From refugee camp to labor leader

Gebre was still a boy when he was forced to flee Ethiopia, a country that suffered political turmoil and famine during the 1980s. “People were getting murdered on the streets by the government,” Gebre says.

Tefere Gebre’s American journey: From refugee camp to labor leader