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North Carolina State AFL-CIO
The largest association of local unions and union councils in North Carolina — 100,000+ union members fighting to organize the South.
The North Carolina State AFL-CIO is the state federation of the AFL-CIO — the largest association of local unions and union councils in North Carolina, representing more than one hundred thousand union members. We fight for good jobs, safe workplaces, workers' rights, and social and economic justice for every working North Carolinian, union or not yet organized.
In the least-unionized region of the country, NC labor is on offense: the Carolina Labor School trains the next generation of stewards, the Central Carolina Worker Justice Center in Greensboro anchors Triad organizing, and the federation leads the fight to repeal North Carolina's ban on public-sector collective bargaining.
Since 1959, North Carolina law has banned collective bargaining for public employees — one of only a handful of states with a total prohibition. Teachers, sanitation workers, firefighters, and state employees can join unions but are denied a contract at the table. The NC State AFL-CIO and its affiliates — including UE Local 150 and the Southern Workers Assembly — lead the ongoing campaign to repeal this Jim Crow-era statute and win bargaining rights for every public worker in the state.
In the spring of 1929, some 1,800 textile workers at the Loray Mill in Gastonia walked out against the "stretch-out" — brutal speed-ups and 12-hour days for poverty wages. The strike was met with the National Guard, masked vigilantes, and deadly violence: police chief Orville Aderholt was killed in a raid on the strikers' camp, and balladeer-organizer Ella May Wiggins — pregnant mother of five and the voice of the strike — was shot dead in broad daylight. No one was ever convicted for her killing. Loray became a defining story of Southern textile labor, sung about for generations, and its lesson still drives the fight to organize the South today.
Source: NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources
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