May 17, 2013
U.S. Government’s secret spending addiction revealed
AFSCME has just released a new video about how the federal government is spending billions of dollars to the exclusive benefit of special interests.
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February 15, 2013
Protect Our Future – Round 2 (FIGHT!)
Read MoreWe hope you will join one of these actions next week – either the in-person meetings or by at least making some phone calls. We are going to keep this up until Congress finally gets the message – work for the good of ALL of your constituents and not Wall Street or just the wealthy.
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February 8, 2013
On Valentines Day, call Congress to stop heartless cuts
Read MoreCongressional Republicans are taking the economy hostage again—threatening to blow it up unless vital services for working families are cut. Call your members of Congress Feb. 14 at 888-659-9401, and tell them to stand up to these bullies!
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December 14, 2012
Vigil-goers hope and pray Congress sees the light against cuts
Read MoreOn December 10, dozens of workers, retirees, students, and veterans in downtown Raleigh joined others gathered in Greensboro and in Asheville to light candles and stand vigil outside congressional offices while their neighbors and faith leaders put the national debate over tax cuts for the rich and program cuts for the rest in personal terms.
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December 14, 2012
Special delivery from Working America for Kay Hagan (12/19)
Read MoreJoin the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate, Working America, to deliver a stack of cards calling for Sen. Hagan to end massive tax cuts for the rich and protect the programs which protect the rest of us.
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December 14, 2012
Understanding the ‘fiscal cliff’ in 2 min 3 sec
Read MoreRobert Reich lays out the what, why and how of the Fiscal “Cliff”, the showdown in Congress that Republicans created to demand painful cuts in vital domestic programs in exchange for raising taxes on the top 2%.
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December 7, 2012
Candlelight Campaign Against Cuts comes to N.C. (12/10)
Read MoreJoin us at 4:30 PM on Monday when working families will hold vigil outside congressional offices in Raleigh, Greensboro, and Asheville to call for an end to tax breaks for the richest 2% and, using personal stories, tell why Congress must not cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits.
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November 30, 2012
Dec. 5 Rally to protect services at Social Security Administration
Read MoreAFGE Local 3509, which represents workers in the SSA, is asking for solidarity support to save services at Social Security Administration at two rallies in Southeastern NC on Wednesday, December 5.
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November 30, 2012
Workers to Congress, “No More Tax Cuts For The Rich. No Benefit Cuts For The Rest.”
Read MoreState AFL-CIO reps joined other union leaders and advocates for workers from 33 states on Capitol Hill this week to lobby Congress to finally let expire the Bush tax giveaway to the top 2% of taxpayers and to protect the future economic security of the other 98% by not cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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A coalition of CEOs and corporations lobbying hard to cut their taxes and pay for it by cutting your benefits, “Fix the Debt” began rolling out its $60 million media campaign to bamboozle reporters and the public, today. The corporations pushing the agenda include financial crisis-causing Goldman Sachs and others like them.
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November 16, 2012
Trumka: “Fiscal cliff” is “nonsense”, a “manufactured crisis”
Read More“There is no fiscal cliff! What we’re facing is an obstacle course within a manufactured crisis that was hastily thrown together in response to inflated rhetoric about our federal deficit.”
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November 16, 2012
Obama: “Let’s extend the middle class tax cuts right now”
Read MoreLast week, having won re-election in which his pledge to let expire tax giveaways to those making more than $250,000 a year was a central part of the campaign, President Obama delivered an economic address in the White House, and he drew a clear line in the sand for budget negotiations.
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November 9, 2012
N.C. workers and retirees tell Congress ‘No more benefit cuts’
Read MoreTwo days after the election, middle-class families in North Carolina told their stories about how they would be hurt if Congress cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for the top 2%. But that’s only the beginning.
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October 26, 2012
Trumka: Americans don’t want ‘grand bargain’
Read MoreIn a Politico column, President Trumka slams talk of Congress reaching a so-called ‘grand bargain’ to reduce tax cuts on the rich and still cut the deficit by eviscerating Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs that benefit working people, the disabled, and retirees.
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October 26, 2012
Choose your side: Moms vs. Millionaires
Read MoreWhen it comes to letting 140 millionaires have a tax-free inheritance versus protecting tax credits that benefit 522,645 working families and their 1.1 million children, we think that should be an easy call.
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