What We’re Doing In North Carolina Select typeArticleEventMedia HitMultimediaReportResolutionSpeechStatement Apply September 15, 2017 Blog North Carolina’s Labor Federation Elects First Woman President MaryBe McMillan becomes the first woman to lead the North Carolina labor movement after being unanimously elected president of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO during the 60th annual convention that wrapped up today. July 31, 2017 Legislative Alert In Opposition to the Nomination of Stephen S. Schwartz to the United States Court of Federal Claims The AFL-CIO opposes the nomination of Stephen S. Schwartz, an ideologue who opposes the rights of workers, African Americans, and immigrants, to the United States Court of Federal Claims. June 10, 2016 Blog The Advocate: North Carolina's Transgender Discrimination Bill Hurts Everyone The Advocate has a piece by Catalina Velasquez, director of People For the American Way Foundation's "Young People For" program, that explains why the recently passed transgender discrimination law in... May 12, 2016 Blog Attorney General Loretta Lynch Steps Up for the Transgender Community in North Carolina Fight Attorney General Loretta Lynch made one of the boldest and clearest statements in support of transgender people by a government official at any level this week:"Let me also speak directly... April 15, 2016 Blog Working People in Unions Stand with LGBTQ Brothers and Sisters Against Discrimination Let's be clear about North Carolina's H.B. 2 and other "bathroom laws" popping up in states that would bar transgender people from using the restroom facility of their identified gender:... February 23, 2015 Executive Council Statement On the Retirement of James Andrews