Dear AFGE Activist,

Each year on October 14 we celebrate Augusta Y. Thomas Day–a day dedicated to community service and reflection of the life and work of a true champion dedicated to fighting for the civil rights, workers’ rights, and human rights of all people.

As a civil rights leader and activist, who sat so we could stand, Ms. Augusta was honored by the International Civil Rights Museum and Center with the Sit-In Participants Award for her actions during the 1960 Greensboro Sit-Ins and work during the civil rights movement.

Ms. Augusta’s tireless devotion to the civil rights movement and labor movement is best reflected when she stated “The future of working people hangs in the balance right now... We must stand until we are all equals, no matter our race, no matter our gender, no matter our class.”

On Augusta Y. Thomas Day and every day, we encourage AFGE members, activists, staff and leaders to not only remember Ms. Augusta, but to continue her legacy and fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.  

This year, in an effort to celebrate August Y. Thomas Day and in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we are challenging our AFGE leaders and members to volunteer your time, your services, or to make some form of a donation to a local Domestic Violence Center within your local community. We want to ensure that as a labor union that we continue to help those who can not help themselves and give a voice to the voiceless.

In Solidarity,

AFGE

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