Join the UUCM Racial Justice team for a phone bank at UUCM March 22 from 10 to noon. Support the historic unionization drive of 18,000 Delta ramp, cargo, and tower workers by calling workers and asking them to re-sign expired union authorization cards. This will help Delta workers get to a vote on unionization as soon as possible. The UUCM Racial Justice group recently hosted a guest speaker, Amanda Goodman-Berry, who spoke passionately about the need for a union at Delta Airlines. In 2023, Delta made 40% of the airline industry’s profits – more than United, American, Southwest, and Alaska combined. Despite these record profits, Delta workers are nowhere near the highest compensated in the industry in terms of pay or benefits. This is an important opportunity to support a racially diverse workforce  and the revival of the labor movement, which will help us fight Trump and the billionaire class.

Please join the UUCM Racial Justice Team in the sanctuary this weekend on Saturday, February 22 at 2 p.m. for a film screening of the 1993 documentary At the River I Stand with guest speaker Amanda Goodman-Berry. The film is about the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

This event connects the struggles of the civil rights era with the current struggle for economic justice at one of the South’s premier corporations – Delta Airlines. In 1968 sanitation workers in Memphis took the radical action of an illegal strike after two workers were killed on the job. Martin Luther King joined their struggle for safety, respect on the job, and fair compensation – and it cost him his life. Stirring and shocking footage from the time includes Dr. King’s last speech, given to striking workers the day before he was assassinated.

Delta Airlines portrays itself as a “woke” corporation while simultaneously trying to block its workers’ efforts to unionize. After Delta produced a video about Dr. King that left out his support for economic justice and unionization, guest speaker Amanda Goodman-Berry wrote a letter to Delta leadership inviting them to meet workers in Memphis to talk about what Martin Luther King died for – the very same safety, respect on the job, and fair compensation that everyone deserves and Delta workers are trying to achieve through unionization.

Invite your friends, and help promote the event!

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Background Information:

• Delta workers in Memphis attempting to talk with Delta corporate leadership about Dr. King
• News story about the Delta union solidarity rally in St. Paul in late January 
• At the River I Stand trailer