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Sharing news about the growing Labor movement and organizing workers in Western North Carolina & Asheville. Also celebrating and reposting Union wins across NC and the South! 😉
Some great news for food service workers in the South today! After a strong organizing campaign with USSW, Waffle House workers are getting a raise! www.instagram.com/reel/C79Lzf5...
Union of Southern Service Workers on Instagram: "BREAKING: #WaffleHouse announces the “single largest additional investment” of pay raises in the company’s 68-year history after workers go on strike, ...
2,258 likes, 91 comments - raiseupthesouth on June 8, 2024: "BREAKING: #WaffleHouse announces the “single largest additional investment” of pay raises in the company’s 68-year history after workers go...
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June 8, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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BREAKING: The UAW announces that workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee will be filing a petition for a union election for 4,100 workers there

It will be the first election in the UAW's historic, ambitious drive to unionize 13 non-union automakers in the U.S.
March 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
AFBU is hosting a bingo night to send some of their organizers to Labor Notes Conference this April. 🎡 actionnetwork.org/events/afbu-...
AFBU Bingo Night Fundraiser @ Different Wrld!
We're hosting a bingo night at Different Wrld in West Asheville! AFBU is hoping to send a few organizers to Chicago in April to attend the Labor Notes Conference and bring back new knowledge and ski...
actionnetwork.org
March 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Mark your calendars and come out! Nurses are specifically asking for community support at this action.
March 17, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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After a grueling campaign, Starbucks Workers United and the company announced a major breakthrough this week that’s being hailed as “a very, very big deal.” inthesetimes.com/article/star...
A First Contract Is Finally in Sight for Unionized Starbucks Workers
After a grueling campaign, Starbucks Workers United and the company announced a major breakthrough this week that’s being hailed as “a very, very big deal.”
inthesetimes.com
February 29, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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our teachers are intermittently striking, though NC law prohibits their association/union from officially bargaining with the district. It's still slowly working. Solidarity.
January 31, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Across the country — but perhaps most intensely in the South — the rising heat at work is having a surprising ripple effect: It is driving workers to organize.

capitalandmain.com/extreme-heat...
October 6, 2023 at 2:39 PM
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Two plants in the South have reached legal threshold of support needed for UAW to call a union election.

First was Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee; second is Mercedes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Good time for EU unions and government to show solidarity
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
United Auto Workers makes progress in effort to unionize Mercedes factory
The United Auto Workers pressed forward in its effort to unionize auto factories in the South by announcing that 30 percent of Mercedes workers at an Alabama factory have signed cards endorsing unioni...
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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UAW says more than 30% of workers at Alabama Hyundai plant sign union cards - Reuters
UAW says more than 30% of workers at Alabama Hyundai plant sign union cards - Reuters
UAW says more than 30% of workers at Alabama Hyundai plant sign union cards - Reuters
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Keep your eye out at the Asheville Mardi Gras parade this weekend for the Labor Krewe being headed up by Asheville Food and Beverage United! www.ashevillemardigras.org/parade-and-q...
Parade and Queens Ball | Asheville Mardi Gras
www.ashevillemardigras.org
February 6, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Today corporate interest groups officially withdrew their referendum efforts in California, clearing the way for the creation of the nation's first Fast Food Council.

Los Angeles worker leader and Jack in the Box worker Anneisha Williams released the following statement:
December 29, 2023 at 8:58 PM
(People’s World) US: “U.S. capitalists conclude ‘workers are losing control’ of job market”: Strong analysis of the greedy pigs trying to engineer a crisis in order to break the Labor organizing wave.
U.S. capitalists conclude ‘workers are losing control’ of job market
NEW YORK—For U.S. capitalists, it’s been a rough few years, at least in one sense. As the COVID-19 pandemic receded, the labor market came roaring back to life, with employees in short supply and ...
www.peoplesworld.org
December 2, 2023 at 11:36 AM
(People’s World) US: “U.S. capitalists conclude ‘workers are losing control’ of job market.” Great analysis of the shifting state of the labor market and the ruling class pigs intentionally pushing for crisis to break the Labor wave. www.peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-...
December 2, 2023 at 3:31 AM
(Payday Report) Chattanooga, TN: UAW launches 3rd Attempt at Volkswagen plant. A longshot but the successes of the Big 3 strike could change the climate. paydayreport.com/uaw-launches...
December 1, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Asheville: Nurses’ union getting the goods to improve patient outcomes AND nurses work lives! You literally love to see it. 💜 avlwatchdog.org/mission-chan...
December 1, 2023 at 2:56 AM
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BREAKING—In a big win for unions in the South, graduate student workers at Emory University vote overwhelmingly— 909 to 73 — in favor of unionizing with @SEIU Workers United Southern Region
November 28, 2023 at 9:38 PM
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The North Carolina Department of Labor is investigating the death of a H2A farm worker who was killed by heat last week.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.wu...
Mexican farmworker's death under investigation by North Carolina Department of Labor
Thirty-year-old José Arturo González Mendoza of Guanajuato, Mexico was in North Carolina under an H-2A visa for temporary agricultural workers. He began working at Barnes Farming in Spring Hope, abo...
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September 13, 2023 at 8:45 PM
Asheville: MtnX article on Asheville Food and Beverage United becoming a full-fledged union! mountainx.com/food/whats-n...
November 28, 2023 at 6:20 PM