News
Senate Republicans pass right-to-work amendment
Senate Bill 1082 would ask voters to cement NC’s long-standing right-to-work protections in the state constitution on the 2026 ballot.
Opinion
It’s time for a Right-to-Work Amendment
Carolina Journal surveys have consistently shown that roughly 64% of North Carolina voters support enshrining right-to-work protections.
News
Windstream telecom workers vote out union in NC
The employees voted 61-50 to decertify the Communications Workers of America, affecting workers in Matthews, Mooresville, Tryon, and Wadesboro.
Opinion
Two glaring (and easily correctible) flaws in how NC collects teachers union dues
Taxpayers shouldn’t be roped into subsidizing teachers unions’ politics, and teachers unions like the NEA and NCAE should have to play by the same rules as everybody else.
Opinion
Is NC the worst state for workers? Hardly.
The fact that both businesses and workers are flocking to "best for business" states and fleeing "best for workers" ones is a major hint on which metric matters more.
Opinion
In NC, no worker has to join a union. My constitutional amendment will keep it that way.
The ability to work freely without coercion is an integral part of our workforce ethos in North Carolina. We have been a right-to-work state since 1947, and the facts show that this status has benefited our workers and helped grow our economy. Right-to-work refers to the ability of workers to choose whether or not they want to...
Opinion
NC Democratic Party still hasn’t recognized its staff union
The Democratic party platform states, "Democrats will [emphasis added] recognize unions with majority sign-up—via ‘card check’ processes.”
Opinion
Right to Work amendment sits in Senate committee
Despite overwhelming support for North Carolina to remain a Right to Work state, the movement toward enshrining the policy in the state constitution has been static. Seventy-five years ago this week, North Carolina enacted the Right to Work law, which banned making union membership a condition of employment and codified a broad anti-union consensus across...
Opinion
Time to celebrate and protect worker freedom
A right-to-work law simply means that a union cannot get a worker fired for not paying them.
Opinion
Tell the union bosses to take a hike
Chapter 95, Article 10, of the North Carolina General Statues harbors one of the most powerful sentiments that has maintained its prominence in the Tar Heel State for almost 75 years: “The right to live includes the right to work.” On March 18, 1947, North Carolina’s right-to-work law was ratified, and since then, the freedom...
Opinion
We have much fear already, so stop trying to create angst, uncertainty
We have so much to fear. From an innumerable list of things natural and manmade. If that is, we choose to effectually succumb to the doubt and the uncertainty. The mainstream media, in fact, encapsulates that fear and profits from it, driving ratings and online viewership. Niche websites, coming from all directions, do much of...
News
Major anniversary approaches for N.C. right-to-work protections
“The right to live includes the right to work.” That simple statement opens the text of a state law that has helped boost North Carolina’s economic competitiveness for nearly 75 years. The state will mark the milestone 75th anniversary of its right-to-work law on March 18, 2022. “Research continues to indicate that right-to-work states not...
