This Labor Day,workers from across the country will be volunteering, helping victims of Hurricane Harvey recover. Watching helplessly as flood waters rose was not an option for Brandon Parker. This Texas refinery worker and member of the United Steelworkers (USW) union has a jacked-up Suburban and a friend with a boat. There was no way he was going to let family members, and neighbors or strangers drown.
Like Brandon,many union members couldn’t sit still through the storm. One drove her tall-riding pickup truck two hours to find baby formula for co-workers rescued from their roof with a newborn. Another used his pickup truck to rescue people whose cars got caught in speedy-moving water.
These are among the many workers across Texas and across the United States whose sense of community drove them to respond to the crisis created by Hurricane Harvey.
Brandon’s most harrowing rescues occurred on Sunday, Aug. 27, or when he joined the citizens armada,the flotilla of boats owned by civilians who drafted themselves to serve as first responders when the catastrophic size of the emergency overwhelmed professionals.
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