• The Justice System Failed Ella May

    On September 14th, 1929, Ella May drove into Gastonia from Bessemer City with a group of fellow union organizers, planning on singing at a rally in support of strikers at Loray Mill. Before they could reach their destination, however, a mob of armed anti-union men intercepted them and ran May’s truck off the road. The mob then opened fire on the truck, hitting May, who exclaimed “Oh Lord, they’ve killed me” and died. May’s killers would later walk free.

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  • North Carolina Labor History Revealed

    The North Carolina State AFL-CIO produced and unveiled this exhibit at its 60th Annual Convention in September 2017 and is making it available to libraries, museums, union halls, and other public spaces so people today can learn about the struggles and victories their fellow North Carolinians encountered on the road to secure our freedom to join together in the workplace for a better life.

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  • Creative Loafing Charlotte Takes “A Look at Labor Conditions and the New South’s Historic Ties to Organization”

    Worker organizing past and present is the cover story of the Labor Day 2018 issue of Creative Loafing Charlotte, featuring quotes from North Carolina State AFL-CIO President MaryBe McMillan, IBEW Local 379 President and state AFL-CIO Vice President Scott Thrower, and Ben Lee, chairman of the Charlotte Labor Day Parade Committee.

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  • Commemorating the 1968 “I AM” Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

    Fifty years later, North Carolinians are coming together to remember the strikers with a National Moment of Silence on February 1st and a special event featuring William “Bill” Lucy at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, February 4th in Greensboro.

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  • Feb. is Black (Labor) History Month

    February is Black History Month, and we’ve pulled together profiles by the AFL-CIO on several pioneering African Americans labor leaders as well as a list of resources courtesy of the American Labor Studies Center.

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  • Labor History Comes Alive Fall 2014

    You’ve gotta know where you’re coming from to know where you’re going!

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  • Scott Hoyman, labor leader, dies at age 93

    Scott Hoyman’s career was dedicated to organizing textile workers in the South, including the J.P. Stevens boycott.

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  • Legacy of Local 22 to be honored on April 20 in Winston-Salem

    On April 20, 2013 – seventy years later – a coalition of labor, faith, and community members will unveil a commemorative state marker to celebrate tobacco Local 22 and the anniversary of their historic sit-down strike that sparked a wave of interracial union organizing in the Jim Crow South.

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  • A brief history of unemployment insurance

    Our forebears discovered that unemployment insurance holds up consumer demand, hence businesses, in a faltering economy. It’s worked for almost 80 years. With economic recovery underway but still precarious, now is not the time to ignore the hard-earned wisdom of history.

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  • How unions helped build a middle class for workers in the U.S.A.

    Unions have been around for more than a century, and they’ve done more good for America’s working people — union and non-union — and have gotten less credit for it than any institution in the United States. An essay by Harry Kelber.

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  • Special event in Salisbury for Int’l Women’s Day (3/8)

    Entitled, “The Fabric of Hope & Resistance: NC Women Workers on Strike”, the presentation will include real stories of real North Carolina women and trade unionists who joined the age-old struggle for dignity at work and a better life for themselves and their families in the Old North State.

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  • NC Highway Sign Now Marks the CIO’s “Operation Dixie”

    On Saturday, September 3, 2011, a new North Carolina Highway Historical Marker was unveiled in Rocky Mount for Operation Dixie.

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  • Special Exhibit on Child Labor in NC at Museum of History

    On Sunday, May 15, the North Carolina Museum of History will feature a showing and discussion of The Cry of the Children. The controversial 1912 silent film depicts the hardships of child textile workers. The film includes real footage of children working in mills.

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  • The Triangle Fire: Still Burning Before Our Nation

    100 years ago today in New York City, 146 workers, mostly young immigrant girls, jumped to their deaths from the 10-story building, unable to escape a fire because factory foremen had locked all the doors. The owners, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, worried the workers would steal from the company.

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  • Celebrate Int’l Women’s Day with Union Maids Film

    The Triad North Carolina chapter of Jobs with Justice will host a special screening of the fantastic film, Union Maids, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 7:00pm to mark the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.

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