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North Carolina nurses stand on the brink of a historic labor victory

By Jonathan Michels

June 3, 2020 - The organizing drive at HCA Healthcare's Mission Hospital in Asheville is National Nurses United's largest labor campaign ever undertaken in a state with a long history of hostility to unions. A win could help shift the power dynamic in North Carolina and the rest of the South.

What we can learn from 'the real Norma Rae'? (video)

By Chris Kromm

April 12, 2010 - Last fall, Crystal Lee Sutton -- a woman whose bravery in organizing textile workers in the 1970s was immortalized in the film "Norma Rae -- died of brain cancer after battling her insurance company for yea

Economy

VOICES: Employee Free Choice: Let's do it for 'Norma Rae'

By Guest Blogger

October 1, 2009 - By Linda Meric Crystal Lee Sutton, the woman whose life inspired the 1979 film "Norma Rae," about a brave union organizer, died of cancer on Sept. 11 after struggling in 2008 with her health insurance company.

Economy

Real 'Norma Rae' dies of cancer after insurer delayed treatment

By Sue Sturgis

September 14, 2009 - The North Carolina union organizer who was the inspiration for the movie "Norma Rae" died on Friday of brain cancer after a battle with her insurance company, which delayed her treatment. She was 68.

Remembering Norma Rae

By Chris Kromm

March 3, 2007 - The Academy Awards have come and gone, pulling in over 40 million viewers and proceeding without any noticeable glitches or controversy. As Robert Nathan and Jo-Ann Mort recently wrote in The Nation, it also passed without any films that made a strong political statement.

Economy

The AFL-CIO Debate and the South

By Chris Kromm

July 25, 2005 - Here at Facing South, we haven't commented much on the massive upheavals in the AFL-CIO, which are now playing out in the labor federation's convention in Chicago, starting today.