NATCHEZ — A union organization from Jackson will be in Natchez today to speak with city employees.

The Mississippi Alliance of State Employees has rented the Natchez Association for the Preservation of African American Culture museum for the event at 1 p.m. today.

Fliers have been posted around the city inviting city employees to the meeting, stating it is being put on by NAPAC.

“For them to say that NAPAC was having the meeting, nothing could be father from the truth,” NAPAC Director Darrell White said.

White said he was contacted by the organization about renting a space for a meeting.

“All we were doing was trying to make a couple of dollars to get the museum up and running,” he said.

When he booked the meeting, he said its organizers were less than descriptive about the event that would take place.

“I didn’t know they were trying to come to town to do union organizing,” White said. “All NAPAC was was a space.”

Brenda Rice Scott, president of the Mississippi Alliance of State Employees, said the organization has already worked to unionize the City of Jackson.

Scott is from Natchez, and she said she wanted to move her efforts to her hometown.

“When you’ve been fighting the movement for 20 years and done something for the city you currently reside in, you’re moved to go home and see what you can do for your own people,” Scott said.

“We’re going to be testing the interest of the workers and see if they want to move in that direction.”

Scott said the organization has been in existence since June of 1989 and currently has 3,500 members.

Scott said she encourages city employees to gather more information today.

“Workers shouldn’t be afraid,” she said. “They have a right to do this and we’ll teach them how to do it.”