Speech
Trumka: We are Living in "The Fierce Urgency of Now"
… Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference: Good afternoon brothers and sisters, and let me officially welcome you to the 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference. Thank you for being here today. Thank you for your work, your solidarity and your activism. Look at this room! You are the future of the labor movement. Our movement. And, … upon us to stop looking at our shoes and start reaching for the stars. Because let’s be honest: What’s working for us right now? Not our political system, when 800,000 federal workers—disproportionately black and brown—and even more …