Durham Workers' Rights Commission
@WorkersRightsNC
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Supporting workers in organizing efforts, lifting worker needs, recommending pro-worker policies.
Durham, NC
Joined December 2019
LABOR DAY DURHAM #WorkersOverBillionaires We are planning more than a BBQ this year bc we have to stop the billionaire takeover. Trump passed the largest wealth giveaway in history. They take from working families & give to billionaires’ pockets & private army of ICE agents.
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EMERGENCY ACTIONS TOMORROW (Mon., 6/9) to DEMAND ICE RELEASE DAVID HUERTA: •• ATL RSVP: https://t.co/HilM5N1kCU •• RALEIGH RSVP: https://t.co/jFZG8ggxvC
#FreeDavidEndRaids #SolidaritySummer #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth @SEIU @seiucalifornia
EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.
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This is huge. Congratulations and good work @DurhamEducators!!
cbs17.com
Members of the Durham school board and Durham Association of Educators gathered Tuesday evening to tout the adoption of a meet and confer policy, the first in North Carolina.
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Be sure to check out Reverend Ryan’s inspirational May Day speech. Don’t Quit-Organize!
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The election results will not deter us. We will rise, organize, and fight relentlessly for the change we are owed. ✊🔥 Our movement is unstoppable, and we will not back down. 💥 Don’t Quit-Organize!
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🚨Saturday 4pm TURN UP for @amazoncause !! Amazon workers are leading a historic fight for the first unionized Amazon in the US South!! 📍 1205 Timber Dr East, Garner! Demands: ⚡️ $30/hour ⚡️Safer conditions ⚡️More PTO 🎥WATCH Our Solidarity video:
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as Amazon workers take to the picket lines, workers in NC continue to battle the outrageous union-busting efforts of the company as they build their union. Rev Ryan Brown is a leader of @amazoncause and a working class leader, recently targeted by Amazon https://t.co/jqcZWBsCaC
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Salute to the Starbucks workers in Apex that voted to join @sbworkersunited @sbworkersdurham Onwards to more worker power in NC in 2025!! Starbucks workers have also joined @amazonteamsters in strikes across the country the last few days!!
wral.com
In a unanimous decision, employees at an Apex Starbucks on U.S. Highway 64 and Knollwood Drive have voted to join the national union of Starbucks workers, marking the sixth store in North Carolina to...
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We remember and salute the 5 labor/civil rights organizers murdered by the Klan, in collusion with the police, 45 years ago today during an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, NC now known as the Greensboro Massacre
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BREAKING: Hundreds of Amazon drivers at the trillion-dollar company’s DBK4 facility in Queens, N.Y., have joined the Teamsters and are demanding that Amazon recognize their union and negotiate a Teamsters contract. The hundreds of drivers at Amazon’s facility in Queens have been
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With the right-wing on the rise, how can building rank and file power that links up with the broader social movements fight this dangerous current? Join us and @BillFletcherJr for this discussion on August 8 at 7pm et | 6pm ct. Register: https://t.co/gSdrrYZzZm
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Nearly *half* of Amazon's warehouse workers are injured during Prime Day. HALF. https://t.co/Z3J5gsteni
cnn.com
Amazon’s warehouses are especially dangerous for workers during the company’s annual Prime Day event, as well as the holiday season, according to an investigation by the US Senate.
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Durham educators and supporters filling the halls at the BOE meeting. Our teachers deserve a union and a majority of our teachers have joined @DurhamEducators to gain a collective voice. No more union-busting — it’s time for DPS to recognize the union!
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It's important to give the VW workers & Shawn Fain HUGE CREDIT for the UAW's HISTORIC LANDSLIDE WIN in Tennessee It's the FIRST TIME a union has unionized a foreign-owned auto plant in the South It's a breakthrough & will no doubt inspire non-union auto workers across the South
🎉 Here’s the moment — Chattanooga erupts in cheers as the UNION YES vote rolls in, VW workers joining the @UAW in a landslide…. (From @MikeElk) https://t.co/DXpcOKeb1l
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"The South is sliding from the margins to the center, our unions are growing, and the @ncae could not be prouder to stand with our @UAW siblings as we work alongside them to secure a state where every family can win." #OrganizeTheSouth
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cardinalpine.com
As NC auto workers rally for better wages, the leaders of NC's top public educator organization say the fight is linked to their own.
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Today members of CAUSE met with students and faculty @DukeU to talk about our struggle for economic justice. We were honored to speak to them and humbled by their hospitality and willingness to join our historic movement. #NCAmazonUnion Don’t Quit- Organize!
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