/tags/labor-union Labor Union en-US Copyright Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:18:43 GMT /business-economy/2024-04-22/autoworkers-union-uaw-volkswagon-shawn-fain-tennessee-carolina The United Auto Workers union is celebrating a huge win at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee. Organizers hope they can continue a push into the rest of the south, including North Carolina and South Carolina, which have very low union participation rates. Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:18:43 GMT /business-economy/2024-04-22/autoworkers-union-uaw-volkswagon-shawn-fain-tennessee-carolina Associated Press /education/2024-03-03/teacher-union-pay-collective-bargain-north-carolina-sickout-durham-public-employees-ncae Unlike in many states, North Carolina public school teachers can not collectively bargain contracts. Nor can they legally strike. The situation has broad effects for public school employees. Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:01:12 GMT /education/2024-03-03/teacher-union-pay-collective-bargain-north-carolina-sickout-durham-public-employees-ncae Liz Schlemmer /education/2023-08-30/its-official-duke-graduate-students-have-a-recognized-labor-union Now, 2,500 PhD students who work as teaching assistants and researchers at Duke University will have a union that can collectively bargain a contract. Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:52:36 GMT /education/2023-08-30/its-official-duke-graduate-students-have-a-recognized-labor-union Liz Schlemmer /news/2023-08-22/duke-university-graduate-students-win-union-election-in-a-landslide If the results are certified, PhD students working as teaching assistants and researchers at Duke University will form the largest graduate student union at a private university in the South. Tue, 22 Aug 2023 22:04:08 GMT /news/2023-08-22/duke-university-graduate-students-win-union-election-in-a-landslide Liz Schlemmer /news/2022-12-02/wfae-becomes-the-first-public-radio-station-in-the-carolinas-to-unionize SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director called the union a “historic win for organized labor." Fri, 02 Dec 2022 23:26:49 GMT /news/2022-12-02/wfae-becomes-the-first-public-radio-station-in-the-carolinas-to-unionize Laura Pellicer /news/2022-11-18/wfae-journalists-want-to-become-the-first-public-radio-station-in-the-carolinas-to-unionize-will-they-succeed More than 70% of WFAE’s content staff signed on to a petition to form a union, the organizing committee said. Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:21:37 GMT /news/2022-11-18/wfae-journalists-want-to-become-the-first-public-radio-station-in-the-carolinas-to-unionize-will-they-succeed Laura Pellicer /business-economy/2020-12-29/frank-stasios-fondest-shows-north-carolinas-unions-and-organized-labor-saved-lives-in-2020 Union membership in the United States is at a record low. About 10% of workers nationwide are currently union members, and only 2.7% of workers in North… Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:08:29 GMT /business-economy/2020-12-29/frank-stasios-fondest-shows-north-carolinas-unions-and-organized-labor-saved-lives-in-2020 Frank Stasio /business-economy/2020-11-17/when-carolina-carpet-mill-workers-fight-back He found his calling in a liberal college town, but no university degrees were needed for the fights Phil Cohen would go on to pick with union busters.… Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:22:59 GMT /business-economy/2020-11-17/when-carolina-carpet-mill-workers-fight-back Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /business-economy/2020-10-01/the-future-of-sex-work Working from home looks a little different for sex workers. With most strip clubs closed and dancers excluded from larger pots of money in the coronavirus… Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:03:19 GMT /business-economy/2020-10-01/the-future-of-sex-work Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao /health/2020-09-22/why-did-western-north-carolina-nurses-unionize Around 1,800 healthcare workers at Mission Hospitals are now represented by National Nurses United. In a press release, NNU called the election “the… Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:21:30 GMT /health/2020-09-22/why-did-western-north-carolina-nurses-unionize Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio