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NC Workers Call on Tillis to Put Working Families Ahead of Politics
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NC Workers Call on Tillis to Put Working Families Ahead of Politics

Workers are calling on Thom Tillis to stop putting Mitch McConnell’s priorities, including ramming through a Supreme Court nomination, ahead of hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who face unemployment, foreclosure and other serious economic consequences due to the COVID-19 crisis.

NC Workers Call on Tillis to Put Working Families Ahead of Politics

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NC State AFL-CIO Holds 63rd Annual Convention @ Home
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NC State AFL-CIO Holds 63rd Annual Convention @ Home

The NC State AFL-CIO’s 63rd Annual Convention was held online this year via Zoom, Thursday and Friday, September 24th and 25th. The two-day convention brought together labor, community, and political leaders from across the state to discuss ways to fight for a better future through organizing, political power, and community building.

NC State AFL-CIO Holds 63rd Annual Convention @ Home

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“Be True Patriots”: NC Workers Demand Senators Tillis and Burr Pass HEROES Act
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“Be True Patriots”: NC Workers Demand Senators Tillis and Burr Pass HEROES Act

Today in an online town hall and press call organized by the state AFL-CIO, members and leaders from unions of working people in North Carolina called on Senator Thom Tillis to support the essential role of working people in this pandemic by passing the HEROES Act, legislation which the U.S. House passed on May 15th to protect the lives and livelihoods of working Americans still grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, Senator Tillis declined an invitation to participate in the town hall.

“Be True Patriots”: NC Workers Demand Senators Tillis and Burr Pass HEROES Act

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ADVISORY: Workers to Demand Congress Pass HEROES Act July 28th
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ADVISORY: Workers to Demand Congress Pass HEROES Act July 28th

In a press call this Tuesday, July 28th at 12pm ET, members and leaders from unions of working people in North Carolina will be calling on Senator Thom Tillis to support the essential role of working people in this pandemic by passing the HEROES Act, legislation that already passed the U.S. House in May to protect the lives and livelihoods of working Americans still grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ADVISORY: Workers to Demand Congress Pass HEROES Act July 28th

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Black Workers, Labor Leaders Urge Senator Tillis to Support the HEROES Act
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Black Workers, Labor Leaders Urge Senator Tillis to Support the HEROES Act

In “Workers First Caravans” rolling out across the country, union members are raising their voice to call for racial and economic justice, including this morning on a press call with Black frontline workers and labor leaders in North Carolina about the continued need for elected officials to address the triple threats of COVID-19, mass unemployment, and structural racism and to demand that Senator Tillis support the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act.

Black Workers, Labor Leaders Urge Senator Tillis to Support the HEROES Act