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Do you wear Red on Thursday? Well if you did, you could have been recognized like Bart Parker in Atlanta, GA and Walter Johnson in Jacksonville, FL for wearing Red on Thursday, November, 13th. Bart and Walter will receive a $25 gift certificate for demonstrating their solidarity on the job with our Union.
Each week on Thursday we randomly select a Member who is wearing Red and recognize their support of our Union. This selection includes all Members’ in the jurisdiction of Local 3250 in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. To participate you need only to be a Member and be wearing Red in your workplace on Thursday. We thank all of our Member’s who participated and who recognize the importance of demonstrating solidarity on the job. We look forward to recognizing you in the future. It Pays to Wear Red on Thursday. The Origin of Why We Wear Red on Thursday. In 1989, along with many of our Union brothers and sisters across the country, the CWA was on strike against NYNEX (Verizon). During that protracted strike, one of our members walking the picket line was E. Gerald Hogan, a Chief Steward at CWA Local 1103 in Westchester County, New York. On August 15, 1989, a Thursday morning, Gerry Hogan was killed. His death was a result from injuries he sustained when he was run down by a "scab" as he walked a picket line. The driver of that vehicle was a manager's daughter who was a "scab" during that strike. The idea and commitment to wearing Red on Thursday to honor our fallen brother started small, but it quickly spread across the nation to all CWA Members as a sign of solidarity. Now on every Thursday, CWA Member’s across the country demonstrate with a sea of Red in the workplace as an ongoing sign of this solidarity. Wearing Red on Thursday has come to mean that we stand together for the improvement of working conditions, fair wages and benefits, and that no worker will have to endure the injustice of an employer. We stand together for all workers and the future of the labor movement. We only receive what we are willing to fight for and that starts by showing solidarity in the workplace. Solidarity is not just an idea- with it we can protect and improve our way of life for all workers’. In unity there is strength. In Solidarity, Roy Hegenbart
President
CWA Local 3250 |
