Speech
Trumka: Collective Bargaining Boosts Worker Productivity
… Good morning everyone. Thank you, Karen (Nussbaum) for that introduction. And thank you to Working America for organizing today’s forum. It is great to be here for this important conversation. I want to recognize … when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.” Anyone know who said that? It was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican and … model of a race to the bottom. Corporate-backed politicians have tried to defund, dismantle and destroy unions. Right to work is now the law of the land in a majority of all states. This didn’t happen accidentally. Our economy is a set of rules. …