The NC State AFL-CIO is exploring options to help establish a sustainable and diverse funding stream that can grow our capacity to execute our vision of building a bigger, more engaged, more powerful labor movement that can win victories for North Carolina working families.
North Carolina was well represented at the 2017 AFL-CIO convention with speeches, remarks, or panel presentations by state federation president MaryBe McMillan, AFGE national president and state fed vice president J. David Cox Sr., Triangle Labor Council treasurer and North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) executive director Melvin Montford, and IATSE Local 322 stagehand and labor-endorsed Charlotte City Council candidate Braxton Winston II.
The AFL-CIO is conducting a national survey of working women, now through December 4th, to capture a clearer picture of the lives of both union and nonunion working women in the United States, the results of which will be published during Women’s History Month next year.
Those who want to take away our safety nets don’t want you to see the video.
America’s unions resolve to develop a new Southern Organizing Strategy.
“If we don’t fight, we can’t win. But if we do fight, we WILL win!”
Not going to L.A.? Not a problem!
Will unions let the low-wage, anti-worker culture of the South pervade the country or will they change the South?
The national AFL-CIO has launched an innovative, brand new section of its website – www.aflcio.org/atWork – that focuses on telling the story of what unions and union members do best and how people working together through their unions contribute to society in ways beyond just providing good jobs with good benefits.
Let’s call this right-wing “freedom” catch phrase what it really is: a grossly political strategy to dupe the public, which holds the word “freedom” as something sacred.
Business corporations are not people—they are manmade creatures of law that exist to generate economic activity and create jobs and income in communities. The notion that they should enjoy the same rights and protections as natural persons is absurd and it is destructive to our democracy.
Esquire has published its Americans of the Year edition, and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is profiled for the feature. It’s a fascinating look into the life of a man who gets what’s happening to American workers because he has lived it.
Please join us in supporting the 2011 United Way Campaign. By doing so, you are helping create opportunities for a good life for all.
As a young worker, if you were in charge of America’s union movement, what would you do? Register now for the Next Up Young Worker Summit!
