I was there, and it was spectacular!
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quoting"On Friday, teachers in North Carolina shut down the 22 largest county-wide school districts in their state. Districts including Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Asheville, Chatham County, Guilford County, Kannapolis City, and Winston-Salem all shut down.
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While some major unionized cities struggled to get crowds of more than a few hundred at their May Day rallies, images of tens of thousands marching in red in downtown North Carolina took many by surprise. How did the state with the second-lowest rate of unionization in the nation, and where public employees lack collective bargaining rights, shut down nearly the entire school system of North Carolina?
Payday Report sat down to interview North Carolina AFL-CIO President Braxton Winston about how North Carolina was able to pull off the massive May Day walkout. Winston says that having the lowest unionization rate in the country meant that unions in North Carolina had to work extra hard at building community connections."
https://paydayreport.com/how-did-north-carolina-teachers-shut-down-states-largest-school-districts-for-may-day/