Speech
Trumka Touts Global Solidarity in Lead Up to AFL-CIO 2017 Convention
… Good morning brothers and sisters! I want to welcome you all here to St. Louis, Missouri. I know that for many of you, just getting here was quite a journey and … for a living has our same basic economic interests and the same values. Workers here and around the world need decent work, and we need to be able to speak freely with a unified voice in our unions to win a life of dignity. And I am sure that … need to take on the policies backed by all the money on Wall Street, and at the same time, we need to take on racism and right-wing populism, that is often linked to white nationalism. This racism, sexism and bigotry… is the worst kind of evil in …