Service 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.
Thousands of workers in the Triad could be out of a job at MillerCoors in Eden and ITG Brands in Greensboro, but union workers at both plants are teaming up to fight for their jobs.
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MillerCoors plans to abandon Carolina by shutting down its profitable, award-winning brewery in Eden, N.C. where 500 people work.
Community members and state and local politicians will rally 3 PM Tuesday in Eden at an event being organized by Teamsters Local 391 to support hundreds of MillerCoors workers facing the loss of good union jobs in their small, mostly rural town.
FedEx is notoriously anti-union and the South has been hostile territory for workers trying to organize unions, but a group of 222 drivers at FedEx Freight’s terminal in Charlotte, N.C. voted last month to join Teamsters Local 71.
