Charlotte-Metrolina Labor Council

08/20/2026

We face many overlapping crises- an affordability crisis, climate change crisis, global treaty collapses and nuclear escalation crisis, backsliding democracies/rise of right wing authoritarianism crisis, new emerging ones like unregulated AI.

But one emergency we do not have is a national debt crisis. It's a fake crisis. The Washington elites will use our ignorance as a weapon to force cuts to popular programs and block spending on essential services. Don't let them. Educate yourself, your friends and coworkers.

Professor L. Randall Wray on why a government with a sovereign non-...

07/31/2026

https://joeallen-60224.medium.com/class-war-in-sugartown-by-joe-allen-b012532e07ba

by Joe Allen

07/02/2026

With great sorrow, the Charlotte-Metrolina Labor Council informs our membership and the broader labor community in Charlotte of the passing of our sister in the movement and southern labor leader, Vonda McDaniel. We send our deepest condolences to Vonda’s family and community. A titan of the labor movement, Vonda McDaniel served as both the president of the Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee and the Co-Director for the Highlander Research and Education Center. Salt of the earth, Vonda worked tirelessly to transform the landscape of labor organizing in the South and to advocate for workers’ rights and the dignity that is inherent in all work. We will take time to grieve this national and specifically regional loss. But most importantly, we will refuse to let the trail that she unapologetically blazed become neglected and overgrown. We will take the torch she carried and pass that flame on. Lighting the path she lovingly traversed for us and with us. Though her loss is unfathomable, decades of knowledge, community building, and love have already been gifted to us through the solidarity and leadership she provided. It is prudent for all who are active in the labor movement to show up and stand in the gap left by her passing. That we use her shoulders along with our other honored ancestors as a sacred foundation of what was, what is, and what could be when we fight and make the unshakable and irrevocable decision to win. Thank you, Vonda, for everything you and your family have given to and sacrificed for us. Thank you for a life well lived. And it is with an abundance of love that we promise to continue your work and bring us all into the future you labored to come into being. “Vonda McDaniel was a freedom fighter, and she taught us how to fight. So we gon’ fight all day and night until we get it right.” In Solidarity, The Executive Board Charlotte-Metrolina Labor Council

07/02/2026

With great sorrow, the Charlotte-Metrolina Labor Council informs our membership and the broader labor community in Charlotte of the passing of our sister in the movement and southern labor leader, Vonda McDaniel. We send our deepest condolences to Vonda’s family and community. A titan of the labor movement, Vonda McDaniel served as both the president of the Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee and the Co-Director for the Highlander Research and Education Center. Salt of the earth, Vonda worked tirelessly to transform the landscape of labor organizing in the South and to advocate for workers’ rights and the dignity that is inherent in all work. We will take time to grieve this national and specifically regional loss. But most importantly, we will refuse to let the trail that she unapologetically blazed become neglected and overgrown. We will take the torch she carried and pass that flame on. Lighting the path she lovingly traversed for us and with us. Though her loss is unfathomable, decades of knowledge, community building, and love have already been gifted to us through the solidarity and leadership she provided. It is prudent for all who are active in the labor movement to show up and stand in the gap left by her passing. That we use her shoulders along with our other honored ancestors as a sacred foundation of what was, what is, and what could be when we fight and make the unshakable and irrevocable decision to win. Thank you, Vonda, for everything you and your family have given to and sacrificed for us. Thank you for a life well lived. And it is with an abundance of love that we promise to continue your work and bring us all into the future you labored to come into being. “Vonda McDaniel was a freedom fighter, and she taught us how to fight. So we gin’ fight all day and night until we get it right.” In Solidarity, The Executive Board Charlotte-Metrolina Labor Council

06/25/2026

Too often, working people get told by others what their priorities should be. We’re doing the opposite! We’re asking thousands of workers and our neighbors across North Carolina what’s actually hitting home and what they want our labor movement to fight for. Your answers to this survey will help shape a Contract with NC Workers that we’ll take to elected officials and hold them to!

New short link: bit.ly/ncworkerssurvey

Too often, working people get told by others what their priorities should be. We’re doing the opposite! We’re asking thousands of workers and our neighbors across North Carolina what’s actually hitting home and what they want our labor movement to fight for. Your answers to this survey will help shape a Contract with NC Workers that we’ll take to elected officials and hold them to!

New short link: bit.ly/ncworkerssurvey

06/25/2026

Subject: Thank You for Supporting the Faster Labor Contracts Act, H.R. 5408

Dear Representative Adams,

On behalf of the Charlotte-Metrolina Central Labor Council, representing over 30,000 union members in our region, I am writing to express our sincere gratitude for your vote and support of the Faster Labor Contracts Act, H.R. 5408.
Your dedication to championing the rights of working families and streamlining critical workforce processes continues to make a profound impact on our community here in North Carolina’s 12th District.
By backing this legislation, you are helping to ensure that labor contract negotiations move forward with the efficiency, transparency, and fairness that modern workers and employers desperately need. Reducing unnecessary delays in the bargaining process stabilizes workplaces and strengthens our local economy.
We are incredibly grateful for your steadfast leadership on workforce development, labor rights, and economic opportunity. Thank you for continuing to be a powerful voice for working people in Washington.
We look forward to your ongoing leadership and to supporting your efforts to move this important legislation across the finish line.

Sincerely,
The Executive Board of the CMLC

06/15/2026

We can learn valuable lessons and tactics from two centuries of labor struggles on the islands.

06/03/2026