Speech
Shuler to IBEW: Unions are Transformational
… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks to the 2021 IBEW Membership Development Conference: Hello, IBEW! It’s so good to be back home, and see friends from all … story about the union difference. For my family, it started when my dad returned home from fighting in Vietnam—he went to work for the local power company and a union lineman apprenticeship program put him on the path to a good job at Portland … is with a high-road strategy that creates good, union jobs. And IBEW members are showing that the clean energy future runs right through the labor movement—from coast to coast—IBEW members in Rhode Island built the first offshore wind farm—in …