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South Carolina’s Unions to Hold First Annual Labor Day Rally and March to Fight Back Against Attacks on Workers

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South Carolina’s Unions Hold First Annual Labor Day Rally and March to Fight Back Against Attacks on Workers

The South Carolina AFL-CIO is joining together with local union members and community allies in a united front against attacks on union jobs, health care access and immigrants

 

WHAT:

On Monday, September 1 at 11 a.m., the South Carolina AFL-CIO will gather for a “Workers Over Billionaires” Labor Day rally and march with labor unions representing local teachers, postal workers, dockworkers, food service workers and more. Union members are standing alongside civil rights activists and other community allies to fight back against the unchecked corporate greed that is threatening our union contracts, workplace rights and essential social services like Medicaid and Social Security.

 

WHO:

  • Boris Gibson, President of South Carolina AFL-CIO 
  • Sam Gibbons, State Liaison for 50501 South Carolina Movement
  • Lawrence Moore, Carolina for All
  • Betty James-Leaks, President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 807
  • Dena Crews, President of The South Carolina Education Association (The SCEA)
  • Kenneth Riley, President of International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Local 1422
  • Josh Dunn, Interim Chair of United Campus Workers (UCW-CWA) at the University of South Carolina
  • Naomi Harris, Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW)
  • Greater Columbia Central Labor Council
  • Bratton Young, South Carolina Workers Party
  • Rev. Jason Myers, Executive Director of Chester Worker Empowerment Center
  • William Christopher, SC Alliance for Retired Americans
  • Johnaca Dunlap, Ubuntu Institute for Community Development
  • Sam Bacurin, Spartanburg Workers Assembly
  • Lynn Teague, Vice President of Issues & Action for League of Women Voters of South Carolina
  • Abdullah Bueno, Veterans for Peace
  • Angel Heaven Lee, Disability Rights Advocate
  • IATSE Local 347
  • Care In Action / National Domestic Workers Alliance
  • South Carolina Jobs with Justice

WHEN: 

Monday, Sept. 1 

Rally at 11:00 a.m.

March begins at 12:00 Noon

 

WHERE:

South Carolina State House

1100 Gervais St.

Columbia, SC 29208