NC State A.F.L. – C.I.O.

Call-to-Action!

Act now for farm workers.

FLOC has tried over two years now to get Reynolds American to improve the conditions of tobacco harvesters in the fields of the South.

Betsy Atkins is a board member at Reynolds, but despite her encouragement, Reynolds CEO, Susan Ivey, still refuses any dialogue with FLOC about the terrible conditions under which tobacco harvesters labor.

Tell Betsy Atkins to resign.

Atkins also sits on the board of Chico’s, a woman’s clothing retailer committed to ethical sourcing. We believe Atkins commitment doesn’t end when she puts on her Reynolds hat. Her resignation would signal in concrete terms her commitment to ethical sourcing and for justice for farm workers.

Click here to send a fax to Betsy Atkins asking her resign in protest.

Notable Quotable

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose.”

–Donald Robert Perry Marquis, author, humorist, columnist

More info & ammo for unionists at biglabor.com

National Press Clips

Read about recent labor related articles in the press.

• Unions flex muscle with bank protest
• Workers rally, plead for more jobs
• Charleston unions protest banker bonuses, lack of lending
• WV AFL-CIO: Banks Need to Help Restore Jobs
• Labor cool to McGinn; Constantine says ’stop the dithering’
• Call For Good Jobs
• Comprehensive jobs plan needed to get U.S. on track
• Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Chief, Called To White House Over Last Minute Health Care Flare Up
• Excise tax questions re-emerging
• Union hits back at Lincoln in Arkansas
• Arkansas AFL-CIO: Lincoln ‘Yet Another Hypocritical, Flip-Flopping DC Politician’ — And She Took Our Money
• BlogTalk: O’Bama’s Roots and Health Care (Lincoln article)
• Arkansas AFL-CIO says Lincoln ‘turned her back’ on workers
• Arkansas union official blasts Blanche Lincoln
• Lawmakers struggle to finish health overhaul bill
• Democrats Inch Toward Securing Votes for Health Bill
• Labor’s Split Over the Health…
• Left still wary of Wall St. bill
• Immigrant workers appear vulnerable to being shortchanged(74)
• Dodd’s Bill Soft On Private Equity And Hedge Funds, Say Critics
• Will Obama Pursue Promised New Approach to Trade, or Continue Bush Model?
• Key Anti-Abortion Dem: Passing Senate Bill Would BePro Life
• Automakers urge Congress not to block new emissions limits
• Johnson and Johnson Executive Compensation
• Timeout for Labor in Florida
• Will Obama Pursue Promised New Approach to Trade, or Continue Bush Model?

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The North Carolina Hear Our Public Employees (HOPE) Coalition is an organization founded to advocate for the restoration of contract rights for state, county and municipal employees. The NC State AFL-CIO is proud to be a core member of the HOPE Coalition.

Since 1959, state law has expressly forbidden governments from entering into collective bargaining agreements with their employees. G.S. 95-98 was signed into law that year at the behest of municipal leaders and the State Attorney General, with the backing of textile mill owners, who feared unionized law enforcement officers would be less likely to play strike busters during organizing drives at their plants.

Almost 50 years later, G.S. 95-98 continues to deny public employees in our state the same rights and freedoms of workers in the private sector to negotiate wages and treatment with their employers. Repeal has been and continues to be a major item on our legislative agenda.

Click the image above to visit their site – nchope.org.