December 2, 2022
Nurses Leading the Way in Labor’s “Southern Revival”
Read about how Nurses at Mission Hospital are leading the way in growing North Carolina’s labor movement and showing what solidarity looks like in our state.
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September 17, 2020
Congratulations to Nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville
Read MoreWe congratulate the nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville on winning their union with National Nurses United by an over two-to-one margin!
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March 22, 2019
Elon University Adjunct Faculty Votes 2-1 to Unionize
Read MoreOn March 12th, adjunct professors at Elon University voted by a 2-1 margin in a union election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board to exercise their freedom to join together in union with SEIU Workers United Southern Region.
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December 3, 2018
Faculty at Elon University Take First Steps to Unionize
Read MoreNon-tenure-track faculty at Elon University have taken the first public steps to exercise their freedom to join together in union and collectively negotiate a union contract for fair wages, job security, and more transparency in salary and promotion decisions made by university officials.
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May 12, 2016
NC State AFL-CIO convenes Organizers Roundtable
Read MoreNC State AFL-CIO convened an “Organizers Roundtable” in Raleigh to strategize about ways to bring more working people together in union to raise wages and improve working conditions in North Carolina.
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April 1, 2016
Geary: ‘Faculty uprising’ at Duke what higher ed needs
Read MoreBob Geary has an excellent piece in the current issue of Indy Week about the successful organizing drive by non-tenured faculty at Duke.
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February 26, 2016
Labor Goes South | The American Prospect
Read MoreIn its winter issue, The American Prospect asks, can the movement rebuild itself below the Mason-Dixon line, and change Southern politics in the process?
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February 12, 2016
Duke faculty file for a union
Read MoreLess than a month after the federal government reported an increase in union membership in North Carolina and other southern states last year, non-tenured faculty at Duke University filed for a union of their own.
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February 12, 2016
Union membership up in the South
Read MoreAnnual data on unions and unionization rates showed North Carolina wasn’t the only southern state to see an increase last year over 2014.
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December 11, 2015
UAW wins historic vote in southern auto plant
Read MoreIn awesome Organize the South news, Volkswagen skilled trade workers in Chattanooga voted overwhelmingly to have UAW on their side, a first at a foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the South.
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November 20, 2015
Southern organizing trainings and apprenticeships available
Read MoreAFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute (O.I.) has opportunities for union organizer training and apprenticeships in the South with two upcoming 3-day sessions – one in New Orleans in December and the other in Atlanta in January. The deadline to apply for New Orleans is Dec. 1 and for Atlanta is Dec. 15.
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October 2, 2015
Labor communicators focus on organizing the South
Read More“If we want workers everywhere to get their fair share, we must organize the South,” MaryBe McMillan told ILCA delegates. “If we organize the South, we can change the nation.”
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December 4, 2014
Picket for a fair contract from CenturyLink (12/8)
Read MoreCenturyLink workers in Wake and nearby counties, members of CWA Local 3682, will picket outside company offices in Youngsville on Monday, Dec. 8 from 6:30 to 8:30 AM. With good jobs and retirement security for 175 workers on the line, this informational picket will provide an opportunity for you to show public support for workers’ efforts to win a fair contract – one that prevents the company from outsourcing jobs and cutting retirement benefits.
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December 4, 2014
Charlotte FedEx Freight drivers vote “union yes” – #OrganizeTheSouth
Read MoreFedEx is notoriously anti-union and the South has been hostile territory for workers trying to organize unions, but a group of 222 drivers at FedEx Freight’s terminal in Charlotte, N.C. voted last month to join Teamsters Local 71.
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November 14, 2014
Volkswagen changes policy to embrace “minority unions”
Read MoreInternational Business Times reported this week that German automaker Volkswagen will recognize unions at its Chattanooga plant even without majority support.
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