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Unionized Farmworkers Reach Pact with Hundreds of NC Farms

Future imperfect: North Carolina's labor groups try to move beyond sordid past

Commentary: Reviving the Southern Black labor movement

Black workers fueled the NC labor movement’s past — and are guiding its future

Canton mill slowdown could be tied to union contract negotiations

Union: Energizer to Close Two Wis Plants, 'Deport' Jobs

Amazon workers in Garner, Charlotte accuse company of unfair labor practices

The South has a new union—and workers have Black women to thank

NC workers helped create a new, multi-state union. Will it change the way we organize?

WFAE becomes the first public radio station in the Carolinas to unionize

UNC Housekeepers Demand Fair Pay, Working Conditions

Nurses at Mission Hospital are leading the way in North Carolina’s growing labor movement.

WCU student worker fired following union creation

Machinists Union Files for Election to Represent 500 Jetstream Workers in Charlotte, N.C.

Raleigh Starbucks Workers Continue Pushbacks Against Management

Amazon Workers in North Carolina Are Building a Union

18 workers for stone products company OldCastle in Lilesville, NC are unionizing with Teamsters Local 71. 

Case Number: 10-RC-296802 Date Filed: 06/01/2022 Status: Open No Employees: 32   Location: Wilmington, NC Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia  Unit Sought:  Included:  All full-time and regular part-time Baristas, Shift  Supervisors, Asst Store Managers.  Excluded:  Store Managers, office  clericals, guards and supervisors as defined by the Act.   Workers United, Southern Regional Joint Board

Fayetteville Police expects to be fully staffed soon as other agencies struggle to recruit

Southern workers gather to build Workers Assembly movement

People are using job listing to sabotage companies that mistreat employees

Asheville Starbucks workers vote down union

N.C. workers march for better working conditions ahead of primary election

Boone location becomes first fully unionized Starbucks in NC

Organizing Employees at a Raleigh Starbucks Face a Disappointing Union Election. They're Not Giving Up Yet.

Workers, advocates say Charlotte is ripe for more employee unions to form  

Starbucks Workers Major Splash, DC Nurses Strike, Steelworkers Fight For Mill & More | Last Week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_u5K-b9j8w

Job boards show Triangle market remains red hot – up to 60,000 openings 

Nurses at HCA hospital in North Carolina rally for safe patient staffing

Retaliation can’t stop growing Starbucks union -  Labor Notes on April 20, 

Report ranks Illinois in bottom ten for economic competitiveness - North Carolina is # 2

How did $1.2M in PPP loans get to Pennsylvania unions? Congressional Republicans want to know 

Starbucks Workers Strike to Protest the Company’s Harsh Union Busting

Amazon Labor Union Is Inspiring Amazon Workers Around the Country to Unionize

In North Carolina, a group of disgruntled Amazon warehouse workers who had formed an independent labor organization called Amazonians United Carolinas 4 Solidarity and Empowerment, or CAUSE, in January saw a surge in Amazon workers in North Carolina wanting to organize with them when ALU won in Staten Island on April 1.

Case Number: 10-RC-293905 Date Filed: 04/13/2022 Status: Open No Employees: 105   Location: Garner, NC Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia  Unit Sought: Included:  All Full Time Delivery, Shuttle, Switcher Drivers Excluded:  Supervisors, Managers, Maintenance, Clerical & Non Drivers Teamsters Local 391 Affiliated with The International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Following the Doctor’s Orders: NLRB Decision Prescribes Union Election for Physicians

Boone Starbucks employees unionize for higher wages, more hours

Starbucks Just Fired a Union Organizer for Allegedly Breaking a Sink

April 10, 2022, 6:09pm

Starbucks fired a barista and organizing committee member at a store in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday after blaming her for purposefully breaking a sink—just days before employees at the store begin voting on whether to unionize. 

Employers Should Take Note of Recent Union Organizing Activities

Vietnamese carmaker to build electric vehicles in NC, bringing 7,500 jobs

The Associated Press March 30, 2022

The United Auto Workers union has plans to organize workers at the new VinFast plant, as well as other electric vehicle and battery factories that are locating in Southern states, union President Ray Curry said Tuesday. The union has funding available now to start organizing efforts, Curry told the Automotive Press Association in Detroit. The union, he said, already has a presence in North Carolina.  “We believe that we are the preferred union,” Curry said. “We are the auto workers, and our goal would be to be able to represent any auto work assembly that would take place in the country, especially EVs that are transforming right now.”  The UAW also will try to organize Ford and General Motors battery plants in Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as factories run by Tesla and electric vehicle startup Rivian. Both have plants that were represented by the union under previous owners. Such campaigns, depending on their duration, could cost tens of millions of dollars, he said.

Team Biden Strikes a Major Blow for Labor

April 8, 2022

The NLRB’s Jennifer Abruzzo argues boldly that management “captive audience” meetings are illegal.

Example of a "captive audience" employee meeting for the purpose of communicating the employers position with regards to union organizing.

 See video below:

As you can see from the results below, the employer ran an effective educational campaign and as a result, the majority of the employees at No Evil Foods rejected union representation.

Anatomy of an Anti-Union Meeting

Election Results as reported by the NLRB

No Evil Foods, Inc   Follow Case Number:   10-RC-255011 Date Filed:   01/23/2020 Status:  Closed Location:  Weaverville, NC Region Assigned:  Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia Reason Closed:  Certification of Results 

Thirty-One Days Inside the First North Carolina Starbucks to Organize for a Union

Right to Work amendment sits in Senate committee

Union Representations Petitions Filed: North Carolina 1/1/22 - 4/8/22

https://www.goiam.org/news/imail/machinists-union-files-for-election-to-represent-500-jetstream-workers-in-charlotte-n-c/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Follow          Case Number: 10-RC-293398
Date Filed: April 4, 2022
Status: Open
  Location: Boone, NC
Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia
         

https://www.goiam.org/news/imail/machinists-union-files-for-election-to-represent-500-jetstream-workers-in-charlotte-n-c/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Follow          Case Number: 10-RC-293160
Date Filed: March 29, 2022
Status: Open
  Location: Asheville, NC
Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia
         

https://www.goiam.org/news/imail/machinists-union-files-for-election-to-represent-500-jetstream-workers-in-charlotte-n-c/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Follow          Case Number: 10-CA-293022
Date Filed: March 28, 2022
Status: Open
  Location: Charlotte, NC
Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia
         

https://www.goiam.org/news/imail/machinists-union-files-for-election-to-represent-500-jetstream-workers-in-charlotte-n-c/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Follow          Case Number: 10-RC-290674
Date Filed: February 15, 2022
Status: Open
  Location: Raleigh, NC
Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia

Unfair Labor Charges Pending

Case Number: 10-CA-293796 Date Filed: 04/11/2022 Status: Open No Employees: 300   Location: Wake Forest, NC Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia     

Charlotte Starbucks employees will rally to unionize

OSHA cites Mission Hospital following complaint from nurses union

What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers

US FOODS WORKERS IN CHARLOTTE JOIN TEAMSTERS

Documents: Slaughterhouse union officers spent funds on all-inclusive vacation, trip to SeaWorld

Updated: Jan. 28, 2020 at 2:46 PM EST

Gavel on sounding blA court order legally made Grimm a man. And he is listed as male on his birth certificate, passport and a state-issued identification card in California. (Source: Image Bank)ock By Brandon Wissbaum and Emily Featherston   BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) - Two former top officers of the union representing thousands of workers at Smithfield Foods siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars in union funds for personal use.  Internal union records obtained by WECT show the officers used funds for a variety of expenses, including trips to an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic and to SeaWorld.