2024 Eugene V. Debs Award Banquet

The officers and directors of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation are pleased to announce that on Saturday, September 28, 2024, the Debs Award will be presented to Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants. AFA represents 50,000 of aviation’s first responders at 19 airlines. She has been a union Flight Attendant since 1996 when she started flying at United Airlines.

Sara often says corporations have money and control but workers have power, and the Labor Movement is for all working people. She encourages women everywhere to join unions and run unions. She believes Flight Attendants can play a pivotal role in building worker power with more public contact than almost any other job and connectivity around the world. Currently, AFA is aggressively organizing thousands of non-union flight attendants including a major drive at Delta Airlines.

The Award Banquet will take place in Terre Haute, Indiana, the birthplace and lifelong home of Gene Debs and his home now is an outstanding museum of trade union and socialist memorabilia. For information of the events planned for the weekend please go to our website: debsfoundation.org.

Please join us on Saturday, September 28, 2024, when the Eugene V. Debs Award will be presented to distinguished labor rights organizer, Sara Nelson.

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