Unions Celebrate MLK Together

SAG-AFTRA leaders and staff joined 1,000 community, labor and government leaders to observe Black History Month at the L.A. County Federation of Labor’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. labor celebration, held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 12.

Attendees enjoyed a heartfelt performance from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church Choir; a spiritual message encouraging social justice service, led by the congregation’s senior minister, Edgar J. Boyd; and, finally, an uplifting speech by L.A Federation of Labor President Rusty Hicks, who discussed the strength of unity among labor organizations. The SAG-AFTRA delegation included Secretary-Treasurer and L.A. Local President Jane Austin, National and L.A. Local Board member Ellen Crawford, L.A. Local Board members Dawnn Lewis and Kate Linder, National Women’s Committee Co-Chair L. Scott Caldwell and MOVE L.A. Committee member Shea Scullin.