• Show solidarity with AT&T workers in Greensboro (8/7)

    With contracts covering more than 28,000 workers at AT&T Southeast about to expire, CWA Local 3607 in Greensboro is calling on all available members, friends, family to rally support for the bargaining team trying to bring back a fair contract.

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  • Emergency Chapel Hill picket to #StopFastTrack (5/28)

    Please join us next Thursday, May 28, 2015 from 4-6pm outside Rep. Price’s office in Chapel Hill if you care about keeping jobs in the U.S., food safety, internet freedom, affordable medicine, and stopping climate change,

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  • 2015 March on Reynolds May 7th!

    Join us on May 7th as we march and demonstrate for justice in NC tobacco fields outside the Reynolds American Headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC!

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  • We go on strike April 15th!

    On April 15, we will be standing up, speaking out and fighting for fair pay at the MASSIVE rallies around the globe for the Fight for $15. Stand with us!

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  • Locked out ADT workers in Winston-Salem hold first picket

    On Saint Patrick’s Day, about a dozen community members and workers, who have been locked out of their jobs since February by ADT Security Alarm Company in Winston-Salem, NC, walked an information picket line for four hours at the busiest intersection in town to raise awareness of the company’s illegal behavior.

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  • ADT Locks Out NC Security Techs

    Employees – installation specialists and service technicians who provide home and business security service – voted for representation by the IBEW in 2013 and have been negotiating for a first contract ever since.

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  • ADT Locks Out Winston-Salem, N.C. Employees

    We’ve received troubling news from our IBEW affiliate in Winston-Salem, NC where, instead of bargaining in good faith on a first contract, ADT has left 19 workers locked out in the cold.

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  • Watch this – Danny Glover: Our Postal Service

    In this superb two-minute video, actor-activist Danny Glover champions the need for a vibrant public Postal Service and asks the public to join with him in A Grand Alliance to save it.

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  • Support tobacco farmworkers at Pantry shareholder meeting (3/10)

    This will be the third year in a row since farm laborers and their supporters escalated their campaign to get Reynolds American to end the abuses in its tobacco supply chain by taking the matter up with the company that sells more Reynolds tobacco products than any other.

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  • Greensboro responds to firing with a sit-in

    Our inspirational story of the week goes to fast food workers in the Fight for $15 and their community supporters in Greensboro who answered workplace injustice in a very-Greensboro way. Triad City Beat covered what happened after Wendy’s retaliated against their employee Crystal Price for standing up for higher wages and the right to form a union.

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  • Picket for a fair contract from CenturyLink (12/8)

    CenturyLink 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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  • Stand with Fast Food workers on Dec. 4th!

    Fast Food workers and allies from across North Carolina are gathering together on December 4 to fight for living wages, respect, and rights on the job! Join us as we build the “Fight for $15 Movement” in the South!

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  • Join OUR Walmart solidarity events in NC

    Join us Monday in Greensboro, Friday in Durham, or wherever you are next week to send a message to Walmart and the Walton Family which controls it that greed is still a sin, and they are no longer going to get a pass from you for profiting off the poverty of Walmart workers!

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  • Walmart workers announce national strike

    If you agree with us that no one in America should work at a company with $16 billion in profits, run by a family with more than $150 billion in wealth and be unable to put dinner on the table, support Walmart strikers in North Carolina this Black Friday!

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  • Stand Up For Our Veterans on 9/12 in Durham!

    V.A. employees and supporters of veterans will protest against mismanagement in the Department of Veterans Affairs outside the V.A. office in Durham on Sept. 12th.

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