Brent Jackson
  
  
    
      
  
  
  
      
  
  
  
    
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        November 21, 2017 -
        
  
        Striking farmworkers in Kentucky recently won a settlement over wage-theft claims, and now a farmworkers' union is suing North Carolina over a new law that curbs the group's organizing power. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        September 7, 2017 -
        
  
        The Farm Labor Organizing Committee will celebrate its 50th anniversary at its convention in Ohio this weekend while under attack from North Carolina legislators, some of whom have a financial interest in suppressing farmworker unions. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        July 11, 2013 -
        
  
        More legislators in North Carolina than in any other state have signed Americans for Prosperity's pledge that discourages action on climate change. Credit for the pledge's political success goes to the billionaire brothers of Koch Industries who founded AFP -- but also to North Carolina's own Art Pope, a conservative mega-donor and longtime AFP leader.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 8, 2013 -
        
  
        A bill to end North Carolina's renewable energy program was passed out of a Senate committee last week even though it didn't have the votes it needed. What's happening in the state is part of a broader national effort to revamp renewable energy laws.