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UFCW Local 655 members and staff in Saint Louis, Mo., attended the first Equity and Inclusion Diversity Leadership Training put together by the UFCW Civil Rights and Community Action Department. Over the course of two and a half days, about a dozen UFCW Local 655 leaders from a variety of backgrounds participated in the first session of the three-part diversity training series. The training was developed to help increase staff and members\u2019 knowledge and awareness of diversity issues and elevate the importance of inclusiveness in local unions. The program focuses on local union leaders developing cultural competence with a new set of attitudes, skills, and behaviors in order to have themselves and their organizations work effectively in cross-cultural situations and workplace diversity. Ultimately, the trainings are designed to empower participants to take action and help steer their local union to develop and promote organizational equity and focus on fairness in order to create change in a local union\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cStepping outside of my comfort zone may be uncomfortable, but it can be a stepping stone for my future responsibilities as a leader in my local union. Thanks to the diversity training, I am ready to go back to work and start taking action to build relationships with other members to empower us to stand united for justice and equality in our union and in our communities,\u201d said UFCW Local 655 member Amy Nichols.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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UFCW Local 655 hosted their diversity training for local union leaders in response to the recent events in Ferguson, Mo., and the impact that the Ferguson events have had on the labor movement in the state. The first session in the diversity training is titled \u201cWhy Diversity Matters.\u201d During this session, participants were involved in an open dialogue about the origin of racism, and the history of racial inequality and its roots in economic injustice. They examined different identities and how they relate to people in the workplace and society. Participants discussed the ways people experience or observe different forms of discrimination at work and in the community. They also learned about what being an ally and having solidarity means in a labor context.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cWe need to have the difficult conversations with our coworkers, members, and the community about why this fight for equality is so important. We need to take the conversations from the trainings out to our workplaces and communities if we want to start taking real action to create change and an environment of inclusiveness,\u201d said UFCW Local 655 staffer Theresa Hester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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During the first session, participants were later joined by young activists from Missouri, who are fighting for social and economic justice in Ferguson and throughout the state. Participants will follow up the training with recruiting members and coworkers for the April 15 Workers\u2019 Day of Action activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cIn today\u2019s America where we are more diverse as a country than ever, it is incumbent on current labor to develop future leaders that act and look like our society. If our current labor leaders do not provide the needed training to a young diverse workforce our labor leaders tomorrow will not reflect the make-up of our society. On a broader spectrum, I would hope all leaders not just labor leaders would be training for a more diverse leadership team in the future. I believe the best possibility to end the wealth disparity in America is to have diverse leaders in the future and the only way to achieve this is to provide leadership training today to a diverse group of workers,\u201d said UFCW Local 655 President Dave Cook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cThe training for new UFCW leaders is critical at this juncture of the union movement. Union leaders will need to have new skills to recruit and engage members in a changing workforce demographic. I\u2019m encouraged to see union leaders such as UFCW Local 655 President Dave Cook, taking the initiative to embrace this challenge of diversity and racial equity and getting leaders in the local involved. Unions must take on the dual fight against the various \u201cisms\u201d both inside and outside the union. Unions are a critical part of the social justice movement that\u2019s building power for all workers,\u201d said Jamala Rogers, one of the diversity program trainers, a retired teacher and member of AFT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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UFCW Local 655 will complete the other two parts of the diversity program in the coming months. The second session will be \u201cRace and Politics,\u201d which will take place in July, and the third session \u201cNew Generation Diversity: I Am Today\u2019s Leader,\u201d will take place in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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To see some great discussion and other highlights from this training session, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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To learn more about the diversity trainings and hosting a training at your local, contact the UFCW Civil Rights and Community Action Department at civilrights@www.ufcw.org.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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