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Response to NCDOL's Rejection of Proposed Workplace Infectious Disease Rules

For Immediate Release

March 14, 2024 

Statement About NC Department of Labor’s Rejection of Proposed Workplace Airborne Infectious Disease Rules

Response to NCDOL's Rejection of Proposed Workplace Infectious Disease Rules

Duke Raleigh Hospital Maintenance Workers Unionize

For Immediate Release

January 26, 2024 

Duke Raleigh Hospital Maintenance Workers Vote to Unionize 

Duke Raleigh Hospital Maintenance Workers Unionize

66th Annual Convention Brings Labor Solidarity to Asheville

For the 66th year in a row, hundreds of North Carolina union members and leaders, community organizers, and elected officials came together at the Annual Convention of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO, held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 7th and 8th in Asheville, to say, “Ain’t no mountain high enough” to stop working people from organizing and mobilizing because life truly is better in a union. 

66th Annual Convention Brings Labor Solidarity to Asheville

United Labor Movement Endorses President Biden for Re-election

Today the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of unions representing 12.5 million workers across the United States and over 100,000 union members in North Carolina, endorsed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for re-election. The announcement cements North Carolina’s status as an electoral “battleground state”, where recent elections have been decided by razor thin margins and the efforts of a well-organized statewide membership like the AFL-CIO’s can make a real difference to ensuring the most pro-union presidential administration ever gets four more years in office

United Labor Movement Endorses President Biden for Re-election

Josh Stein for Governor

Working people in North Carolina need their next governor to be a fighter for freedom, fairness, and the opportunity for everyone–Black, white, and Brown, urban and rural–to live a good life and enjoy shared prosperity, which is why we are proud to endorse Josh Stein.

Josh Stein for Governor

ADVISORY: Community to Honor NC Workers Who Died on the Job

Local workers, union members, and community leaders will gather outside the North Carolina State Capitol this Friday to commemorate Workers Memorial Day by renewing the call for strong safety protections and remembering 179 workers killed on the job.

ADVISORY: Community to Honor NC Workers Who Died on the Job