If you weren’t able to attend NC Policy Watch’s Crucial Conversation with Mandy Locke, investigative reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer, that full program on worker misclassification is now available online.
You’ve got to see this video post by former Secretary of Labor during the Clinton Administration, Robert Reich. Pay close attention at the 1 minute mark of this video. If that passes, it’s game over for workers.
What issue or issues will drive you to vote this year? Whatever drives you, be sure you vote!
In a recent episode of Wahlburgers on A&E, Donnie Wahlberg pays an emotional tribute to his father, Donnie, Sr., who was himself a union member. It’s good stuff.
This week AFL-CIO released a powerful new video that calls the effort by the Republican majority in the NCGA to silence its opposition “un-American” and urges viewers to make themselves heard anyway.
Find out how one state capital in the Deep South is trying to reinvent itself and change its citizens’ economic fortunes through worker-run co-ops and “solidarity economics”. Video includes an interview with MaryBe McMillan.
Bloomberg News published a story on Common Sense Economics this week that included coverage of our pilot training held last month in Greensboro and co-hosted by us, Working America, and the N.C. Justice Center.
On May 8th, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) joined forces with faith leaders, fast food workers, and hundreds of community supporters in Winston-Salem to fight for living wages and union rights for farm workers at Reynolds American.
On May 19th, 2014, the Forward Together Movement will return to the North Carolina General Assembly for it’s first Moral Monday of the 2014 Legislative Session. This video is an expose of the Movement and an explanation of why it’s continuing.
Check out this great mini-documentary on low-wage worker organizing in the South to learn what it’s all about, with strike footage and interviews with fast food workers and labor and civil rights leaders.
Tell us why you need a union on your side! Tweet, Facebook, and Instagram your reason using #TalkUnion. Include a selfie, and your story could be featured on our blog and on Facebook!
UFCW members at Local 1208 need North Carolina and the country to pay attention to this campaign, part of the larger effort by labor unions to organize a new movement of southern workers.
“We are one of the few success here in the South in recent history, and everybody is a part of that,” says Keith Ludlum.
“We need to spread the word that a union card is the best anti-poverty program around,” says MaryBe McMillan.
“North Carolina has been the scene of some of the most important labor struggles in American history,” says Robert Korstad.
