Today we celebrate the introduction of legislation to repeal North Carolina’s “right-to-work” law and the prohibition on public employee collective bargaining, G.S. 95-98–two relics from the segregation era that belong in the dustbin of history.
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Jess Issacharoff, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University and member of the Duke Graduate Students Union, SEIU, says labor unions ought to look the the South for inspiration in the fight to secure fair wages and our freedom to organize.
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February 16, 2018
It’s About Freedom: Working People’s Day of Action Feb. 24th
On February 24, join thousands of working people and our allies standing up for our freedoms and demanding an end to a system that’s rigged against us. Here’s why that matters and how you can help!
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“Voters expect more from their representatives than petty political gamesmanship,” said MaryBe McMillan, NC State AFL-CIO, about the advancement of an effort to put a so-called “Right to Work” constitutional amendment on the ballot in November 2018.
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An effort to put North Carolina’s Jim Crow-era “right to work” law in the state constitution with a November 2018 ballot measure is about protecting Republican legislative and congressional majorities in the midterm election.
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January 24, 2014
McDonald’s ‘right to work’ wrongs
Senior supervisors at McDonald’s thought they could use ‘right to work’ to intimidate this volunteer strike supporter. It didn’t work.
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April 19, 2013
Canadians show U.S. how to fight Right to Work (video)
Award-winning Canadian director Bruce McDonald is sending a message to Ontario politicians behaving badly with a clever YouTube video that should resonate with every union member in North Carolina. There are no free rides in life.
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February 1, 2013
Republicans introduce three anti-worker constitutional amendments
True to his word, on the first day of business in the new legislative session, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis introduced one bill to put three anti-worker, anti-union amendments to our state constitution on the ballot in 2014.
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January 11, 2013
Thom Tillis, union-buster
At the opening of the 2013 legislative session, during his speech to House lawmakers, Speaker Thom Tillis (R) said he intends to protect Right to Work (for less) and to keep North Carolina the least unionized state in the United States.
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August 31, 2012
Standing up to Right to Work for Less on the radio
MaryBe McMillan represented for North Carolina’s unions and working families on Charlotte Talks, this week.
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Now there’s video of Thom Tillis promising a Right-to-Work (for Less) amendment to a group of conservative supporters at a stop on his “Divide & Conquer” town hall tour back in October.
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October 19, 2011
Republicans Vow to Put Right to Work for Less in State Constitution
Should any worker still think Thom Tillis and the Republican majority in our state legislature are looking out for his or her interests, this puts the lie to that notion. Tillis says his party will push to enshrine North Carolina’s right to work for less status in the state constitution, and he doesn’t even pretend the move is about protecting workers.