September 26, 2014
Southern workers vote big to have a union on their side
Big news in the effort to build a new southern workers movement came last week as thousands of American Airlines employees voted overwhelmingly to have a union on their side.
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Read MoreMaryBe McMillan took the AFL-CIO’s call for unions to “organize the South” before a national audience of thousands of progressive thinkers, bloggers, online organizers, and activists gathered in Detroit July 17-20 for Netroots Nation 2014.
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Read MoreOn Saturday, August 9 workers from across NC and other Southern states will gather in Goldsboro, NC for Solidarity City – a day long gathering of workers to discuss strategy, develop their organizing skills, and lay out how to continue to build a united effort to organize the South.
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Find out how one state capital in the Deep South is trying to reinvent itself and change its citizens’ economic fortunes through worker-run co-ops and “solidarity economics”. Video includes an interview with MaryBe McMillan.
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May 1, 2014
#TalkUnion on #MayDay and every day
Read MoreTell us why you need a union on your side! Tweet, Facebook, and Instagram your reason using #TalkUnion. Include a selfie, and your story could be featured on our blog and on Facebook!
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April 23, 2014
UFCW campaign at Mountaire Farms making news
Read MoreRead how members of UFCW Local 1208 are bringing hope to their neighbors in rural North Carolina, as featured in Indy Week.
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April 23, 2014
Join the 2014 March on Reynolds in Winston-Salem
Read MoreSupporters of tobacco farm laborers in North Carolina will march May 8th in Winston-Salem to demand Reynolds American take responsibility for human rights abuses in its supply chain.
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April 23, 2014
Video: UFCW members stand strong for poultry workers
Read MoreUFCW members at Local 1208 need North Carolina and the country to pay attention to this campaign, part of the larger effort by labor unions to organize a new movement of southern workers.
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April 4, 2014
Tennessee governor used taxpayer money to thwart UAWVW
Read More“Tennesee taxpayer money was used to influence the outcome of the UAW vote,” says MSNBC host Ed Schultz, based on a report in the Detroit News.
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March 21, 2014
There’s something dangerous in your cereal
Read MoreKellogg’s workers are fighting back through their union against a new corporate culture at the company that is locking out workers, shuttering plants, and threatening to drive its workers out of the middle class.
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March 7, 2014
Angaza Laughinghouse: The Public’s Power in the South
Read More“Laws in and of themselves don’t grant power,” says Angaza Laughinghouse. “We can have collective bargaining rights, but if workers aren’t taking workplace action, nothing is going to happen.”
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March 3, 2014
Zaina Alsous: Forging a New Path in the South
Read More“Myths about the impossibility of organizing in the South or organizing poor workers are increasingly being put to rest,” says Zaina Alsous.
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March 3, 2014
Justin Flores: How farm workers win in the South
Read More“Farm workers never had the right to organize,” says Justin Flores with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), but they are doing it anyway and doing it in the South.
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February 28, 2014
Keith Ludlum: Community support is key
Read More“We are one of the few success here in the South in recent history, and everybody is a part of that,” says Keith Ludlum.
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February 28, 2014
MaryBe McMillan: We can provide hope in the South
Read More“We need to spread the word that a union card is the best anti-poverty program around,” says MaryBe McMillan.
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