Speech
Trumka: Now Is the Time To Get Immigration and Labor Law Reform Done
… AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks to the House Labor Caucus: Good afternoon, everyone. I want to thank this caucus for your leadership on labor issues. Since … generation arrived in America, we were the last hired and first fired. The people who did the hardest and most dangerous work. The people whose pay was shorted, because we didn’t know the language and were afraid to complain. Despite all that, we … moved our plants overseas nor took away our pensions. Immigrants neither slashed our health care nor hacked away at our right to organize. All too often, anti-worker politicians try to make immigrants their scapegoats, instead of taking real …