Speech
Trumka Outlines Lessons from the Financial Crisis
… Good morning everyone. Welcome. It is great to have all of you here. Before I begin, I’d like to acknowledge Pia Bungarten of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Gustav … between the German and American labor movements. Pia, thank you for your spirit, your integrity, your ideas and your work ethic, and good luck to you in your new assignment. You will always be welcome at the AFL-CIO, and I hope we keep in … price of austerity as a response to economic crisis—unending economic crisis and, on the political side, a resurgence of right-wing authoritarianism as voters lose confidence in democracy itself. What is less well known is how these same ideas …