From the MLK Labor website:
MLK Labor spoke with retired WFSE Local 341 leader Claude Burfect about his lifelong activism, spanning civil rights to the labor movement.
SEATTLE, WA (February 26, 2025) — Claude Burfect was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1942, deep in the heart of the Jim Crow era. His father died before his second birthday, leaving his mother to work multiple jobs cleaning houses to raise him and his three siblings.
Despite the segregation and injustice surrounding him, Burfect has fond memories of his early life in Louisiana. His close-knit family and community provided a…
