| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Gulf Coast Media: Community talks in Fairhope about upcoming legislative session topics Arise has held community meetings across Alabama to equip our members and supporters for advocacy ahead of the 2024 legislative session. One key priority that emerged at these events is protecting voting rights. "We should not create more barriers to people accessing our democracy," Arise's Presdelane Harris said.  Further reading: AL.com AL.com Lagniappe WVUA 23, Tuscaloosa. |
| Alabama Daily News: Montgomery Hyundai workers hold unionization forum with United Auto Workers “The best way to lessen and eliminate poverty is unionizing workers, and that’s why Alabama Arise supports UAW in the statewide organizing campaign, and particularly at Hyundai,” Arise's Dev Wakeley said. Further reading: AL.com Public News Service |
| WSFA 12, Montgomery: Governor says she doesn’t want Alabama auto workers to unionize “Becoming a unionized facility means that these workers will have a voice in the operations of the facility and the way that they’re treated in their pay and their benefits and their disciplinary processes,” Arise's Dev Wakeley said. Further reading: Alabama Reflector Fox 10, Mobile WTVY 4, Dothan |
| Alabama Public Radio: Report: Alabama should improve wages, working conditions for autoworkers “One of the biggest problems with the Alabama economy is the lack of workers who are represented by organized labor,” Arise's Dev Wakeley said. “We know that wages rise for workers when workers are organized. One of the best ways to ensure that workers thrive is to increase union membership." |
| ABC 33/40, Birmingham: Addressing health care issues in Alabama; what's the solution? "When you compare Alabama to other states who've actually expanded Medicaid, we are doing way worse in terms of rural care provision, access to hospitals, access to labor and delivery units," Arise's Robyn Hyden said. |
| Alabama Reflector: House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter’s 2024 priorities: child care, transportation, education Alabama Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter suggested that Alabama look at options to close the health coverage gap in 2024. "According to Alabama Arise, a nonprofit group that works on poverty issues, about 300,000 Alabamians who neither qualify for Medicaid nor for subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans, often referred to as being in the coverage gap," the Alabama Reflector reported. |
| Alabama Public Radio: More than 100 Alabama faith leaders urge pause on nitrogen hypoxia execution Alabama Arise helped gather signatures of more than 100 faith leaders to urge the state to rethink its use of nitrogen hypoxia for executions. "We speak collectively in requesting that you not move forward with this untested method of execution. There must be greater transparency concerning the safety protocols surrounding the use of nitrogen hypoxia," the letter states. Further reading: WSFA 12, Montgomery WTVY 4, Dothan WVTM 13, Birmingham |
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