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Municipal Workers Bill of Rights
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UE Local 150 Fall 2018 Newsletter
Click here to download PDF version of the Fall 2018 Newsletter by N.C. Public Service Workers - UE Local 150. In this issue: Grassroots Coalition Fights for a Just Hurricane Florence Recovery! DHHS Workers Challenge Conditions That Lead to Unjust Terminations Meet the...
10th Convention Reviews Local Gains & Global Struggles
Workers from cities around North Carolina, the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the University of North Carolina and the Cummins Rocky Mount Engine plant gathered in Raleigh, NC on August 17 and 18 to celebrate Local 150’s 20 years of struggle and...
Union Wins Raises to $15/hr for all State Workers!
After UE150's successful Political Action days at the North Carolina State Legislature in May, legislative officials announced on May 24 that they plan to raise the minimum annual salary of full-time state employees to $31,200 ($15/hour) — or give a 2 percent raise to...
1968: Municipal Workers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People’s Campaign
Fifty years ago, African-American sanitation workers in Memphis stood up for dignity, striking to demand recognition of their union — and their humanity. The strike pitted over a thousand sanitation workers, who as public-sector workers in the right-to-work state of...
Is Durham a union town? Labor groups hope so
Union and labor groups in Durham are calling for a Worker’s Rights Commission, and think they have a city council who supports it. “Durham probably has the most progressive city council in North Carolina,” said Aiden Graham, campaign manager for the North Carolina...
Building on Dr. King’s Legacy, North Carolina Municipal Workers Kick Off Bill of Rights Campaign
A cold snap the first week of this year took a toll on North Carolina’s cities. In Greensboro alone, 38 water mains broke—and despite near-zero temperatures, municipal workers like Charles French were responsible for fixing them. “We had workers out in frigid...