Service + Solidarity Spotlight: North Carolina State AFL-CIO Shares History of the State’s Labor Movement

Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

Over Labor Day weekend, the North Carolina State AFL-CIO released its limited, four-episode podcast about the history of the state’s labor movement. Episode 1: Roots answers the question, how did we get here? The roots of worker resistance trace back to the first union in North Carolina, The Knights of Labor. Learn how demands for respect on the job were waged by working people like Ella May Wiggins and heroes of the Marion Massacre, inspiring textile organizing across the country.

Learn more at bit.ly/nclaborhistory.