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Open Letter to Duke University, Demanding Labor Code of Conduct for Contractors
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Solidarity with North Carolina Education Worker Actions! SWA Statement
Deepen the workers struggle, strengthen our unions and fight against budget cuts! Southern Workers Assembly sends solidarity to North Carolina education workers and their union! On May 16, teachers are taking personal days to mobilize by the tens of thousands to...
May Day, International Workers Day – Rally in Durham
All Out for May Day, International Workers Day – May 1, 2018 ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE IMMIGRANT, UNDOCUMENTED, BLACK, MUSLIM, INCARCERATED & ALL WORKERS! 6:00pm - Opening rally at Police Headquarters, 505 W. Chapel Hill St., Durham 6:30pm - March kicks off...
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First “North Carolina Needs Unions” Town Hall Held in Durham, NC
On Thursday, June 14, 2018, workers, community organizers, current union members and candidates for state and federal office met together in Durham to discuss the need to make it easier for workers to join together in strong unions. Durham, a southern city that has...
ABC 11: New effort to strengthen the bargaining power of NC employee unions
It looked and sounded like an old-fashioned union rally in Durham Thursday night - which grabs your attention considering unions don't have a lot of political power in North Carolina. This was an effort to turn that around. In this sometimes raucous and pro-union...
HERALD SUN: Durham City Council wants to overturn N.C. ban on collective bargaining
BY DAWN BAUMGARTNER VAUGHAN, Durham Herald Sun UPDATE: Durham City Council approved this resolution at its meeting on April 2, 2018. City workers seeking more influence for unions got some symbolic support Thursday when the Durham City Council said it will pass a...