Speech
Trumka to Earth Week Forum: Addressing Climate Change Will Confront Deep-Rooted Equity
… Good afternoon and Happy Earth Week. Thank you, Brother Cecil (Roberts). Ernie, I want you to know how much I appreciate working together through the Labor Energy Partnership. Secretary (Jennifer) Granholm, on behalf of the 12.5 million working people in the 56 unions of the AFL-CIO, thank you for being here. And to you both, I want to say how much it helps working families when the Secretary of Energy is pro-worker. Look, we’re facing … My union won job safety and quality through collective bargaining, not corporate benevolence. We had to fight for every right. Every protection. Every raise. Workers paid in blood spilled by Coal and Iron police. We can’t answer the climate …