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Greensboro, North Carolina, Nov. 5: UE150 Statewide Municipal Workers Summit

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Greensboro, North Carolina
11am – 3pm Sat., Nov 5
Carolina Worker Justice Center
407 E. Washington Street, Greensboro
(Meeting is around back of parking lot behind Interactive Resource Center)

  • Develop a statewide program
  • Build Statewide movement to empower city workers & take on bad state government
  • Learn about victories with workers from other cities
  • Learn lessons, best practices to strengthen union 

Calling all UE150 City worker members to attend this important statewide summit to discuss all of our work in our various cities.  From Greensboro, to Durham, to Charlotte, to Raleigh, to Rocky Mount, to Chapel Hill and Greenville and beyond, we call on workers to mobilize to attend this important training and planning meeting.
GREENSBORO: City workers there started a new union 3 months ago & have been reaching out across the city, studying policies and building.

DURHAM: City workers there hosted 10 weeks of pickets in front of City Hall this spring winning the largest wage increase in 10 years, and raising minimum wage to $15 per hour in next 2 years.

GREENVILLE: Sanitation workers in 2011staged a walk-out and forced the city to addresstheir concerns.

CHARLOTTE (below right): City workers staged several weeks of picket lines in front of city hall in 2012, winning payroll deduction and meetings with City Manager’s office.

RALEIGH: Sanitation workers staged a two-day strike, Sept, 2006. This is the 10th Anniversary. Workers won many improvements.

Be there!   RSVP by calling UE150 Municipal Council Chair Nathanette Mayo at 919-231-2660 today!

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UE local 150, NC Public Service Workers Union
919-833-1619

Our mailing address is:
805 New Bern Ave., Ste. 110
Raleigh, NC 27610

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