Get to Work for Working People
State House Speaker Tim Moore, State Senate President Phil Berger
Republican leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly have prioritized bills that benefit bosses by undermining working people while making sure other bills that would raise wages and expand opportunities die without a vote. The state house passed a totally unnecessary, politically motivated ballot initiative to add our 70-year-old so-called "right to work" law to the state constitution, and the state senate passed a bill to repeal the legal right of public employees to deduct union dues from their paychecks. Meanwhile, bills that would raise the minimum wage, guarantee equal pay for women, or restore the state Earned Income Tax Credit for working people have gone nowhere.
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State House Speaker Tim Moore, State Senate President Phil Berger
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[Your Name]
The North Carolina constitution holds, in Article 1 Section 1, that everyone in our state has the inalienable right to the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor.
Yet so far this session, the House has chosen to pass an unnecessary "right to work" ballot initiative, and the Senate has sought to take away dues deduction from public employees.
Meanwhile, bills filed in both chambers to raise the minimum wage, ensure women receive equal pay for equal work, fix our broken unemployment insurance system, and restore the state Earned Income Tax Credit for working people have gone nowhere.
I urge you to consider the oaths you swore to uphold our state constitution and then get to work prioritizing the needs of working people.
Sincerely,