NAACP Branches Welcome CWA President Claude Cummings Jr.

This past weekend, CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. provided the keynote addresses at two NAACP Freedom Fund Luncheons, at the Salt Lake City, Utah, and Bucks County, Pa., branches. The Freedom Fund is the primary fundraising vehicle to support the NAACP’s slate of political, educational, and social equality programs.

CWA District 7 Vice President Susie McAllister attended the event in Salt Lake City along with CWA members from CWA Local 7704, United Professional Ski Patrols of America (CWA Local 7781), and the United Campus Workers (UCW-CWA Local 7765). UCW-CWA members recently made history, establishing the first union for campus workers on the Utah State University campus.

President Cummings spoke at both the Salt Lake City and Bucks County events, extolling the positive impacts of union membership on reducing race-based earnings gaps and on the interconnectedness of the Labor and Civil Rights Movements. Said Cummings, “Unions help reduce racial resentment among white workers, paving the way for unity not just around workplace issues but also around a pro-worker, pro-rights policy agenda. That’s why the people who rely on exploiting our labor for profit have sought to promote hatred and division among us. Our unity is the biggest threat to their greed.”

 
CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. at the Freedom Fund Luncheon in Salt Lake City, Utah with CWA District 7 Vice President Susie McAllister and members of CWA Local 7704.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.