Party politics trumps doing anything for N.C. The effects of the Great Recession have been devastating to our state’s budget. Tax collections are down due to massive job losses and reduced consumer spending while increased demand for public services like unemployment threaten North Carolina’s ability to fund its single largest expenditure – public education. The […]
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May 3, 2010
Protests Outside Bank of America in Charlotte
Read MoreClick here to see more photos.. Invest in job creation, not fighting financial reform On April 28 folks from all walks of life – including union members, people of faith, and the unemployed – demonstrated outside the Bank of America (BofA) shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC to demand Wall St banks stop fighting financial reform […]
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April 16, 2010
Gov. Perdue Attends Jobs Summit in Raleigh
Read MoreOrganizers urge adoption of multiple ideas to help struggling families On Wednesday, Historic Thousands on Jones St (HKonJ) partners, the NC Justice Center, NC NAACP, and the NC State AFL-CIO, among others, held a jobs summit at the Martin St. Baptist Church in Raleigh, where Governor Perdue was urged to consider multiple proposals to get […]
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April 13, 2010
Take on Bank of America at Shareholders Meeting (4/28)
Read MoreB of A is failing America Workers, clergy, veterans, civic leaders, and community groups from the NC State AFL-CIO and NC United Power will converge for an important action at the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting in Charlotte on the morning of April 28th. What: Rally and action at B of A shareholders meeting When: […]
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April 9, 2010
75th Anniversary of Works Progress Administration
Read MoreWPA put millions of Americans back to work When President Franklin Roosevelt came to office during the Great Depression, he recognized his most urgent task was putting millions of unemployed and destitute Americans back to work. Out of this great need for jobs, the Works Progress Administration, one of FDR’s many New Deal job initiatives, […]
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March 26, 2010
Make Wall St Pay to Fix the Job Crisis They Created
Read MoreWorkers protest Bank of America in Raleigh Yesterday, the Triangle Labor Council (TLC) organized a protest outside a Bank of America (B of A) branch in Raleigh, NC. The event drew about two dozen protestors. Folks held signs and chanted for about an hour at the busy intersection where the bank is located to raise […]
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March 19, 2010
Durham Company is Stimulus Success Story
Read MoreCree praised as leader in green technology Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu were in Durham this week to promote the stimulus bill’s clean-energy tax credit and to tout the accomplishments of Cree, a manufacturer of LED lighting. Because of a $39 million tax credit, Cree has been able to hire 375 […]
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March 19, 2010
AFL-CIO Call for Good Jobs, Making Wall Street Pay
Read MoreActions planned in NC next week Working families are joining together to demand good jobs now. America needs 11 million jobs, and big Wall Street banks should pay to rebuild jobs and the economy they helped destroy in 2008. Since the recession began, America has lost nearly 9 million jobs. While Americans have lost jobs, […]
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February 19, 2010
One Year Later, Two Million Jobs Saved
Read MoreThe Recovery Act is working One year ago this week, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. At the time our economy was in free fall, the stock market had tanked, and job losses were topping 800,000 a month. Millions of Americans who lost their jobs were also losing their health […]
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January 29, 2010
A Workers Revolt in Mass. Election
Read MoreFix the problems of working Americans, or else Working families, especially voters in union households, turned out big in 2008 to elect the largest Democratic majorities in Congress in decades and bring change to the White House. In 2009, we mobilized like never before on a legislative agenda for labor law reform so workers can […]
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January 8, 2010
Help Us in the Fight for Good Jobs NOW!
Read MoreAFL-CIO unveils 5-point plan to fix jobs crisis It’s up to us, America’s unions, to lead the fight for solutions that will get us out of this crisis. The AFL-CIO has a five-point plan to create and save millions of jobs over the next year, starting as soon as Congress acts. It will take all […]
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August 19, 2009
Clean Energy & Jobs in Greensboro Tomorrow!
Read MoreCounter Big Oil’s fake grassroots astroturfing with the real deal You’ve probably seen the disruptive and angry mobs that have been raiding events and town hall meetings recently. While these tactics were initially being used solely in opposition to health care reform, similar tactics are now being used to oppose climate and clean energy reform. […]
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