Nationwide, over 1,200 Solidarity Day events were held, including about a dozen held in North Carolina to commemorate the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 43 years ago in Memphis, TN where he had returned to stand by sanitation workers in their demand for collective bargaining and equal protection under the law.
On April 4, 2011 and the anniversary of Dr. King’s death, people in communities across North Carolina will join hundreds of thousands of others across this country to commemorate the sacrifice he made to bring about economic justice, human rights, and human dignity for working men and women.
The North Carolina State AFL-CIO is the largest association of local unions and union councils in North Carolina, representing over one-hundred and forty-thousand union members, fighting for good jobs, safe workplaces, workers’ rights, consumer protections, and quality public services on behalf of ALL working people.
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