Speech
Trumka Calls for Workplace Standard on Infectious Diseases
… hopes, aspirations and direct action of working people. This morning, the AFL-CIO and many unions submitted a petition to the U.S. Department of Labor calling for an emergency workplace infectious disease standard in response to the coronavirus … outbreak. Now our government must do the same. An emergency workplace infectious disease standard would be a step in the right direction and set in motion a 6-month timeline to create a long overdue permanent standard so we are better prepared if … cares about people like himself. Day after day, he’s attacked our wages, our health care, our pension, our safety and our right to form a union—all to further entrench power in the hands of the wealthy elite. He is one of the most anti-worker …