We Support Our Union Brothers and Sisters of the Transport Workers Union
The Oklahoma AFl-CIO represents over 200 local Unions and over 100,000 Union members across the State of Oklahoma. I have been honored to lead this organization now for over 23 years. And over the years I have witnessed firsthand many locals that have needed help defending their memberships against unscrupulous employers and multi-national corporations that treat their workers as disposable commodities. Many times, those locals that find themselves fighting off attacks have requested and received generous support from their brothers and sisters in the labor Movement. The labor Movement has always made the stand that “an injury to one is an injury to all”.
Workers today are under extreme pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic, high unemployment, losing health coverage and national economic crisis. Not to mention that corporations are looking to cut any, and all expenses to please their shareholders. And to top it off, once again the Aircraft Mechanics
Fraternal Association (AM FA) is trying to convince the mechanics at American Airlines that the Transport Workers Union is not who should be representing them as workers in their workplace at American Airlines.
As a member of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) for over 30 years, I have seen firsthand how AMFA has tried to raid the TWU for decades, every time unsuccessfully. AMFA is not a union in my opinion. My local, TWU 514 has always been there to help ANY Union in their time of need, just like a family
member would, without hesitation. They have always stood for the rights of the working families in Oklahoma whether it was on the shop floor or the halls of the State Capitol. Being Union is about standing with your fellow workers in solidarity against corporate greed.
On behalf of the over 100,000 union workers in the State of Oklahoma, we stand united behind our brothers and sisters in the Transport Workers Union and believe that the mission for the labor Movement is to organize and educate the unorganized worker, not to attack our fellow workers.
In Solidarity,
Jimmy C. Curry, President
Oklahoma AFL-CIO