CBTU Boston

02/06/2026

Happy Black History Month to all. I have an inspiring quote that I will be sharing with everyone. This is how the quote reads.

Harriet led so that,
Rosa could sit,
Ruby walked so that,
Kamala could run, to watch,
Ketanji rule.

09/30/2025

"It Is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It Is our duty to win.
We must love and support one another.
We have nothing to lose but our chains".

Assata Shakur
Rest In Power

09/22/2025

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True Power is restraint. If words control you, that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Warren Buffet

08/31/2025

"No one will place the truth in your mind, it is something that you must discover yourself".

08/24/2025

“We are not divided by our differences. We are divided by our inability to organize”.

08/18/2025

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will".

Frederick Douglass

07/26/2025

"Those that make history seldom see the footprints that they leave, because the path is always before them".

William "Bill" Lucy
Co- Founder
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)
November 26, 1933 - September 25, 2024

09/03/2024

SUPPORT STRIKING LOCAL 26 UNITE/HERE HOTEL WORKERS IN BOSTON

Pride at Work AFL-CIO, Labor's official LGBTQ Constituency Group, is planning a fundraiser for striking Hotel Workers, members of Local 26 UNITE/HERE.

We are calling out for any and all drag artists and other performers for a fundraiser we are organizing. Please call, DM, text or email Gerry Scoppettuolo if you can lend a hand. 617-721-5347

A Few Examples of Solidarity between Local 26 and the LGBTQ community

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qBpwT7CIqkOlXzWNkcrwnXV402Nl4psIYFv3OgK0DGw/edit

Transgender Worker Protections: Local 26 made protecting trans workers a strike issue a few years ago! The Harvard Dining Hall workers put their rights on the line. WE NEED TO BE THERE NOW, UNION OR NON-UNION

For years Sylvia Sidney – was the most famous and outrageous drag queen in Boston and was a union member of local 26 and also the chief union negotiator at contract time. Hotel bosses cringed across the bargaining table when Syvia confronted them! Her picture hangs on the wall of Jacques, the oldest gay bar in Boston

In 1985 Local 26 united with the Gay Community to launch the Coors Boycott in Boston to oppose the anti-gay crusades of Coors Beer, Anita Bryant and Jery Falwell and the Moral Majority. We were given an office in the union hall to work the boycott, Thank you DOMINIC Bozzotto (RIP), Ed Childs and Steve Kirschbaum (USWA 8751, BostonSchoobusdrivers union)
Boston's Gross Drag Queen, Sylvia ...

For the past 16 years the LGBTQ community and the Hotel Workers Union have united to urge everyone to refuse lodging at union hotels that are on strike www.sleepwiththerightpeople.org. This campaign was started by Cleve Jones, the chief assistant to the late Local gay city Harvey Milk, the first openly gay councilor in the US who was assassinated in 1978

In 1982 Hotel Workers UNITE/HERE Local 2 in San Francisco was one of the first unions to enact protective contract language for gay workers!

09/03/2024

Pride at Work AFL-CIO, Labor's official LGBTQ Constituency Group, is planning a fundraiser for striking Hotel Workers, members of Local 26 UNITE/HERE.

We are calling out for any and all drag artists and other performers for a fundraiser we are organizing. Please call, DM, text or email Gerry Scoppettuolo if you can lend a hand. 617-721-5347

A Few examples of Solidarity between Local 26 and the LGBTQ community

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qBpwT7CIqkOlXzWNkcrwnXV402Nl4psIYFv3OgK0DGw/edit

Transgender Worker Protections: Local 26 made protecting trans workers a strike issue a few years ago! The Harvard Dining Hall workers put their rights on the line. WE NEED TO BE THERE NOW, UNION OR NON-UNION

For years Sylvia Sidney – was the most famous and outrageous drag queen in Boston and was a union member of local 26 and also the chief union negotiator at contract time. Hotel bosses cringed across the bargaining table when Syvia confronted them! Her picture hangs on the wall of Jacques, the oldest gay bar in Boston

In 1985 Local 26 united with the Gay Community to launch the Coors Boycott in Boston to oppose the anti-gay crusades of Coors Beer, Anita Bryant and Jery Falwell and the Moral Majority. We were given an office in the union hall to work the boycott, Thank you DOMINIC Bozzotto (RIP), Ed Childs and Steve Kirschbaum (USWA 8751, BostonSchoobusdrivers union)
Boston's Gross Drag Queen, Sylvia ...

For the past 16 years the LGBTQ community and the Hotel Workers Union have united to urge everyone to refuse lodging at union hotels that are on strike www.sleepwiththerightpeople.org. This campaign was started by Cleve Jones, the chief assistant to the late Local gay city Harvey Milk, the first openly gay councilor in the US who was assassinated in 1978

In 1982 Hotel Workers UNITE/HERE Local 2 in San Francisco was one of the first unions to enact protective contract language for gay workers!

09/03/2024

Pride at Work AFL-CIO, Labor's official LGBTQ Constituency Group, is planning a fundraiser for striking Hotel Workers, members of Local 26 UNITE/HERE.

We are calling out for any and all drag artists and other performers for a fundraiser we are organizing. Please call, DM, text or email Gerry Scoppettuolo if you can lend a hand. 617-721-5347

A Few Examples of Solidarity between Local 26 and the LGBTQ community

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qBpwT7CIqkOlXzWNkcrwnXV402Nl4psIYFv3OgK0DGw/edit

Transgender Worker Protections: Local 26 made protecting trans workers a strike issue a few years ago! The Harvard Dining Hall workers put their rights on the line. WE NEED TO BE THERE NOW, UNION OR NON-UNION

For years Sylvia Sidney – was the most famous and outrageous drag queen in Boston and was a union member of local 26 and also the chief union negotiator at contract time. Hotel bosses cringed across the bargaining table when Syvia confronted them! Her picture hangs on the wall of Jacques, the oldest gay bar in Boston

In 1985 Local 26 united with the Gay Community to launch the Coors Boycott in Boston to oppose the anti-gay crusades of Coors Beer, Anita Bryant and Jery Falwell and the Moral Majority. We were given an office in the union hall to work the boycott, Thank you DOMINIC Bozzotto (RIP), Ed Childs and Steve Kirschbaum (USWA 8751, BostonSchoobusdrivers union)
Boston's Gross Drag Queen, Sylvia ...

For the past 16 years the LGBTQ community and the Hotel Workers Union have united to urge everyone to refuse lodging at union hotels that are on strike www.sleepwiththerightpeople.org. This campaign was started by Cleve Jones, the chief assistant to the late Local gay city Harvey Milk, the first openly gay councilor in the US who was assassinated in 1978

In 1982 Hotel Workers UNITE/HERE Local 2 in San Francisco was one of the first unions to enact protective contract language for gay workers!
Harvey Milk - California Museum

07/27/2024

Greetings:

To all of you that are familiar with me as a person. You should be aware by now. That I only post what I find to be inspiring or motivational. So I’am sharing these words with you all. I find the words to be informotive, thought provoking, and true.

“I ‘ve Learned That People Will Forget What You Said, People Will Forget What You Did, But People Will Never Forget How You Made Them Feel.” Maya Angelou

05/06/2024

Special LGBTQ/Black Labor History Presentation

The LGBTQIA +community and allies are playing a major role protesting the current genocide in Gaza while we are simultaneously resisting national attacks against the trans community from coast to coast. This narrated slide show is based on decades of research, my own lived experience as a union orga...