Raleigh Friends Meeting endorses North Carolina House Bill 1583, An Act to Restore Contract Rights to State and Local Entities, and will join the NC Hear Our Public Employees (HOPE) Coalition as a Supporting Organization. NC HOPE Coalition comprises nine Core Partners that represent state, county, and municipal employees, as well as over 30 Supporting Organizations such as faith-based, political, and labor organizations.

The Meeting will urge all Quakers in North Carolina to affiliate with NC HOPE Coalition as Meetings or as individuals, and to communicate to their NC state senators and representatives, their support of repealing a low enacted in 1959 that prohibits NC state and local governmental units from entering into contracts with their employees.

In communicating with others, we emphasize the Quaker testimony for social justice, equality, and the peaceable resolution of conflict.

First month, 27, 2008