With three days until Election Day, national union leaders are spending critical final hours in battleground states like North Carolina mobilizing members to deliver victories for pro-worker candidates

MEDIA ADVISORY for November 2, 2024

CHARLOTTE – On Saturday, November 2 at 10 a.m., National AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond, Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Claude Cummings, UNITE HERE Secretary-Treasurer Nia Winston, and North Carolina State AFL-CIO President MaryBe McMillan will be gathering for a rally with union member volunteers ahead of a critical canvass on the last weekend before Election Day. CWA members in North Carolina recently voted to ratify a powerful new contract at AT&T Southeast with substantial wage increases, and now workers are ready to elect candidates up and down the ballot who will continue to respect their hard work and freedom to thrive. Throughout the state, there are 125,000 union members—a greater number than Donald Trump’s winning edge in 2020. And in an election where North Carolina’s 16 electoral college votes likely will be awarded based on an incredibly slim margin, the labor movement’s state-wide mobilization efforts have the potential to be the deciding factor in electing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as the next President and Vice President of the United States.

WHO:

• AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond
• CWA President Claude Cummings
• UNITE HERE Secretary-Treasurer Nia Winston
• North Carolina AFL-CIO President MaryBe McMillan

WHEN: Saturday, November 2nd at 10 a.m.

WHERE: APWU Local 375 Union Hall – 3521 Mulberry Church Road, Charlotte, NC 28208

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The North Carolina State AFL-CIO is the largest association of local unions and union councils in North Carolina, representing over one-hundred twenty-five thousand union members, fighting for good jobs, safe workplaces, workers’ rights, consumer protections, and quality public services on behalf of ALL working people.