Bus Tour Hits Atlanta on the Road to Labor Day
Labor leaders and union members in Atlanta gathered at the Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 613’s Union Hall for a Workers Over Billionaires rally as part of the AFL-CIO’s nationwide bus tour. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler also showed support for the airport workers organizing in Atlanta to fight for a union on the job.
Attendees heard from President Shuler, Georgia State AFL-CIO President Yvonne Brooks, Georgia State AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer James Williams, Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council President Sandra Lee Williams, and Teamsters Local 728 Solid Waste and Recycling Division Director Chuck Stiles.
A National Nurses United (NNU) member who works at an Atlanta Veterans Affairs hospital; a member of the Union of Southern Service Workers, a project of the Service Employees International Union (USSW-SEIU), who has worked at Waffle House for 16 years; and a local AFGE president who represents Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers all delivered powerful testimony.
“We will not stay silent, and we will not back down,” said President Brooks. “It’s about time Georgia workers and all the workers in the southern region got the freedom, fairness and security that we are owed, and we refuse to back down.”
Today, President Shuler met with Delta Air Lines ramp workers and flight attendants organizing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport with IAM union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), UNITE HERE and SEIU to deliver a message that the entire labor movement is behind them. Airline workers know it’s better in a union!