UFCW 21 Statement in Response to Today’s Guilty Verdict in the Trial of George Floyd’s Killer

While we are gratified that the Floyd family and the community of Minneapolis received a form of justice today with a guilty verdict, we recognize that one verdict cannot fix a racist justice system. Nor can it bring back the life of George Floyd, nor the countless other Black, Indigenous, and People of Color whose lives and opportunities have been lost to racialized policing and systemic racism in its many forms. 

UFCW 21 stands for economic, political, and social justice in our workplaces and in our communities. We know that racism and white supremacy keep us separated from each other and undermine our collective power, and that the best way to defeat these systems of oppression is to work in solidarity to build a diverse working-class movement. We believe in working together toward the future we want to see. 

Over the past year, UFCW 21 members have continued our fight for racial justice in bold new ways, including demanding police accountability in the labor movement, attending many Black Lives Matter events, trainings, and protests, and fighting for the right to wear Black Lives Matter insignia at work, as well as standing in solidarity with nonunion workers fighting for these same rights.  

We are working within our labor movement and our communities to place racial justice at the heart of our plans for the future. 

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Want Black Lives Matter buttons for your workplace? Text your name and work location to (803) 820-2121. 

Read what UFCW 21 membership and leaders shared at the time of George Floyd’s death in 2020.