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… CONTACT: Carolyn Smith [email protected] 336-392-2129 (cell) GREENSBORO, N.C. – In response to today’s ruling from the U.S. 4 th Circuit Court of Appeals striking down North Carolina’s 2013 voter ID law, Working … State Director Carolyn Smith issued the following statement: “When conservative lawmakers in North Carolina took a scalpel to the voting rights of African-Americans in 2013, Working America members pushed back through collective action with … a huge victory for North Carolina’s working families and helps ensure voters in our state, regardless of race, have access to free and fair elections. “This decision stops injustice in its tracks. Despite state lawmakers’ best efforts, today’s …

… Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold on raising interest rates: The Federal Reserve’s decision today not to raise interest rates was the right call for working people. For more than a year, the Fed has raised interest rates without fully considering the root … chain are to blame. Inflation is not an excuse to roll back job and wage growth, risk a recession and put millions out of work. Continually raising interest rates without taking time to evaluate the effects of increased rates has been the wrong …

… on the Supreme Court’s Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute decision: ​Today, the Supreme Court announced a decision to allow the state of Ohio to purge voters from the rolls after they skip six years of not voting and fail to send back one piece of mail. Five justices on the Supreme Court sent a message to states: try to suppress votes and you …

… Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on President Biden’s decision to veto rollback of a Department of Labor (DOL) rule: Days like today are why the labor movement fought so hard to elect President Biden. No modern American president has done more to advance the causes of working people, which was made … critics refuse to do; deal in reality, not rhetoric.       In his first veto since becoming president, Biden made the right call. He sent a strong and emphatic message to legislators that ESG factors should be left to the professionals, not …

… “The Double Standard at Work: European Corporate Investment and Workers’ Rights in the American South” cites key case studies to reveal practices in the U.S. South Read the report here: aflcio.org/double-standard-report European corporations are … nations. This compelling text thoroughly analyzes how low wages, low taxes, low levels of union representation and “right to work” laws are magnets for European corporations to relocate jobs to the U.S. South to escape European social …