DANNY GLOVER VISITS WORKERS AT UNITED FOOD &
COMMERCIAL WORKERS LOCAL 1208
LAWRENCE & ARTELIA PERRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND LEGACY
LUNCHEON HONORS AWARDEES
TAR HEEL, NC - Acclaimed actor,
director and activist Danny Glover
visited Tar Heel, North Carolina on
Wednesday, August 6th and addressed
union members and Democratic leaders
including Democratic Party Chairman,
Randy Voller, at the UFCW Local 1208
Union Hall. Glover, best known for
staring in The Color Purple and the
Lethal Weapon series visited Bladen
County in a
role he plays
in real life:
activist.
"Not only
are you the
beneficiaries
of your
great heroic
struggle and the beneficiaries of your
victory - but also your families, this
community
and the
country,"
Glover said.
The United
Food and
Commercial
Workers
(UFCW)
Local 1208
was founded
in 2008 to represent employees at the
Smithfield Foods facility in Tar Heel, NC,
which is the largest pork processing
plant in the world.
Glover visited with Mountaire poultry
workers and union members from the
Smithfield food processing plant who
are trying to work together to organize a
union with the Mountaire workers.
UFCW Chapter President Keith Ludlum
explained that the group is facing
resistance in its efforts to organize
workers at the Mountaire Farms chicken
processing plant in Lumber Bridge.
"We don't believe we can have a
fair election under the conditions
the workers are facing now that the
employer is doing: using local law
enforcement to intimidate the workers,
threatening workers with arrest,
threatening workers with termination,"
he said.
Glover likened the Mountaire
employees' fight to the struggle for civil
rights in the 1950s and 60s.
DURHAM, NC - The Lawrence & Artelia Perry
Scholarship Fund (L&APSF) hosted its Second
Annual Scholarship Fund Legacy Luncheon
recently at the Washington Duke Inn. The Legacy
Luncheon was established to honor persons in
Durham and vicinity who walk in the pathways
of faith, family, history, and love of the late Rev.
Lawrence Perry and Mrs. Artelia Marsh Perry
(the axiom of the Scholarship Fund). Honorees
for 2014 were Early Childcare Educators &
Caregivers in the Durham area and vicinity. The
2014 Legacy Luncheon program was dedicated
to the late Mrs. Mattie Perry Anderson, s