55,000 State Workers In NC Vote To Unionize

Good news out of SEIU today as they announce the unionization of a whopping 55,000 workers in North Carolina. The specifics of the story are that they got the State Employee Association of North Carolina to vote to unionize. Convincing a public sector association to choose to unionize is a bit more in the low-hanging fruit category then attracting 55,000 private sector employees, but the creation of density -- or the beginnings of it -- in historically anti-union NC will make future organizing drives easier, and allow SEIU to establish a beachhead in terrain that's traditionally been pretty hostile to organized labor. So, in conclusion, yay!

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[gcallaghan]

It's too bad that people wait until the times get painfully shitty before realizing we are all in the same boat and big business keeps drilling holes. Luckily, state employees don't have to listen to threats of offshoring their jobs. With the wildcat strike in the western ports last week and this news, maybe the labor movement hasn't flatlined in America, after all.