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Remember the Dead at 2018 Workers Memorial Day Service
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Remember the Dead at 2018 Workers Memorial Day Service

Join us at 10 AM Friday, April 27th in Raleigh for a press conference and memorial service during which participants will toll a bell 174 times - once for each person in North Carolina who died while working for a better life in 2016 - and will call for the state Department of Labor to do more to prevent workplace injuries and fatalities.

Remember the Dead at 2018 Workers Memorial Day Service

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Want To Carry On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Work? Join A Union
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Want To Carry On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Work? Join A Union

Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to march with the city’s striking black sanitation workers. Wages were bad, and conditions were so unsafe that workers were seriously injured or even killed while using the trash compactors of their trucks.

Want To Carry On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Work? Join A Union