North Carolina: State Employees Vote to Join National Union
According to the Triangle Business Journal:
Members of the State Employees Association of North Carolina have voted to affiliate with the Service Employees International Union.
The SEANC Board of Governors had voted overwhelmingly on March 8 to enter negotiations with SEIU, but the membership still had to approve the measure, which they did by a margin of 80 percent to 20 percent in voting on May 3. SEANC will be known as SEIU Local 2008.
The move represents a big shift for North Carolina, one of the nation's least unionized states. In 2007, only 3 percent of the state's work force was unionized, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Adding SEANC's 55,000 members will increase the state's union population, now at 115,000, by nearly 50 percent...click to continue.
