Labor Rights Groups Petition State Officials for Workplace Protections During Public Health Crises
Grocery and big box store employees, along with fast food, construction and food processing workers, were deemed an “essential” labor during the COVID-19 pandemic. They did not have the luxury of working from home.
Critics Contend State Budget Proposal Misses the Mark on Education
“That’s a choice to prioritize tax cuts over complying with the court-mandated constitutional requirement to fund public education.”
Chapel Hill, Durham, and Orange School Districts Have Paused In-Person Classes; Will Wake Follow Suit?
The school board votes this afternoon on whether to resume in-person instruction next week; administrators and teachers want to wait until mid-February.
A New Report Says Workplace Deaths Have Risen 48 Percent in North Carolina
The N.C. Department of Labor says the report doesn’t convey an accurate or complete picture.
Durham Service Workers Share Stories of Poverty Wages and Poor Conditions—and an Indifferent State Labor Department
The city’s prosperity has garnered national recognition, often overshadowing the challenges faced by those who find it increasingly difficult to live here.
Advocates Say Durham’s Experiment to Wipe Thousands of Old Cases Off the Books Could Be a Model for Statewide Justice Reform
The new Durham Expunction and Restoration program has already dismissed more than 70,000 traffic and criminal cases, but expanding it will require resources—and political will.
N.C. Teachers Are Mad as Hell and They’re Not Going to Take This Anymore
Last week, I asked my neighbor, a first-year elementary school teacher in Durham, whether she planned to go to the protests in Raleigh on Wednesday. Durham Public Schoolslike more than thirty school districts across the state, including the Wake County Public School System, Orange County Schools, and Carrboro Chapel Hill City Schoolswere closing on May…
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Charter Schools and the Resegregation of North Carolina Schools
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. According to a new report from the NC Justice Center’s Kris Nordstrom, North Carolina over the last…
HB 2: How Did We Get Here?
That’s the question I kept coming back to, in the months following the one-day special session in March that rammed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act into law: How did North Carolinaonce a bastion of, if not Berkeley-esque liberalism, at least a forward-thinking commitment to modernityend up synonymous with transphobia and bigotry? How did…
Here’s What HB 2 Actually Does
First, the basics, most of which you already know: on February 22, Charlotte’s city council passed a nondiscrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation and gender identitythe first such bill in the state, though not the country. Already, nineteen states and more than two hundred cities have passed similar legislation. But those other cities don’t have…
Unemployment rates are up in 72 N.C. counties since January
So much for the Carolina Comeback: according to some recent labor market data on unemployment released by the left-leaning NC Justice Center, unemployment is up in North Carolina. 81 counties in the state continue to have more unemployed workers than before the beginning of the Great Recession—roughly December of 2007—and 91 of the state’s 100…
Recent study reveals violations in North Carolina migrant farmworker housing
A newly published research study conducted by the Center for Worker Health at Wake Forest University found violations in North Carolina migrant housing. The paper, published in the March edition of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, reveals several violations of the North Carolina Migrant Housing Act at the 183 labor camps that were inspected.…
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