Raising Wages NC Coalition members to protest lawmakers’ failure to act before the legislative “crossover deadline” expires with novel and noisy demonstration, 10 A.M. Thursday on Jones Street in Raleigh.
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March 15, 2019
MEDIA ADVISORY: “Raising the Minimum Wage is for Everyone” press conference on March 19th
Read MoreLawmakers, workers, and business owners will announce legislation raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour over five years, ending subminimum wages, repealing exemptions for agricultural and domestic workers at a press conference Tuesday, March 19th in Raleigh.
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Read MoreWorkers and advocates celebrated this week as Winston-Salem City Council members voted unanimously to approve a minimum wage of $15 an hour or more for city workers by 2021. The move shows growing momentum in North Carolina, following similar victories in Greensboro, Raleigh, Durham and Wake County.
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May 1, 2018
Attend Raising Wages #15forNC Lobby Day May 22nd
Read MoreOn May 22nd, the Raising Wages NC coalition is hosting a statewide lobby day to put our elected officials on notice that the time is now for state lawmakers to raise the minimum wage for North Carolina’s working families to $15 an hour.
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January 10, 2018
News & Observer Editorial: Time to Raise the Wage!
Read More“North Carolina’s refusal to increase its minimum wage is beginning to look as heartless and thoughtless as its refusal to expand Medicaid,” says The News & Observer in an editorial that rejects as unfounded the canard that raising the wage will hurt businesses or employment and says keeping it at $7.25 “doesn’t improve the state’s economy and only protects jobs barely worth having.”
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January 5, 2018
Greensboro’s Largest Newspaper Comes Out for Raising Wages
Read More“Even the rationales for stifling minimum wages in North Carolina contradict themselves,” says the newspaper for North Carolina’s third largest city.
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Read MoreNorth Carolina State Representative Chaz Beasley knows a thing or two about why raising wages is so important to working families like the one he grew up in.
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March 10, 2017
Campaign Launched to Raise NC’s Minimum Wage to #15in5
Read MoreIn recognition of International Women’s Day, state lawmakers joined Raising Wages NC to kickoff a new campaign and to introduce legislation for $15 an hour by 2022.
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February 17, 2017
Campaign Launched to Raise NC’s Minimum Wage #15in5
Read MoreNorth Carolina working people and families need a raise. Too many workers in our state don’t get paid enough to afford the basics. That’s why we’ve joined a broad coalition to campaigning to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in five years.
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April 1, 2016
Global strike, protests April 14 will be ‘biggest-ever’
Read MoreFresh off major victories in California, New York, and Pennsylvania, the Fight for $15 and union rights has announced that April 14th will be its biggest mobilization ever.
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February 26, 2016
Low pay is not OK for Raleigh police either
Read MoreService sector workers aren’t the only ones organizing to raise wages. This week the Raleigh Police officers, among the lowest paid in the country, launched a campaign for a raise of their own.
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February 19, 2016
Sirota: Focus on wages for NC to adapt to “the future of work”
Read MoreRaising wages and expanding opportunity for the masses – not the millionaires – is the way forward to a prosperous future for both working people and the economy in North Carolina.
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November 13, 2015
Opinion: Prosperity for all begins with taking care of our workers
Read MoreChapel Hill resident, ardent AFL-CIO supporter and grandma, Miriam Thompson, wrote an excellent op-ed for the News & Observer, in which she asks a question that used to be the cornerstone of the American social contract, “How can we build a better future for my children and grandchildren – and yours?
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October 23, 2015
Fight for $15 and a union Nov. 10 (UPDATED)
Read MoreThe more low-wage workers hear about the Fight for $15, the better, which makes the nationwide day of action on November 10 more important than ever.
