Speech
Trumka to TWU Convention: Workers Must Break the Isolation
… Thank you, Harry [Lombardo]. I want to congratulate you on winning the presidency of this powerful union. A union with a proud past and – I can feel it in this … over America are isolated from each other. It’s time to break the isolation. That's how solidarity starts. The corporate right-wing knows how to pressure us, how to pit us against each other, plant seeds of insecurity. We can't react to that … creates more value, over longer hours, and yet most of us earn less. Think back over the last 15 years—think of all the work you did, all your co-workers did, all your friends and neighbors and family did. All of the wage increases over the last …