Speech
Labor’s Future: Bargaining for All
… President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks at the National Press Club: Good afternoon. It is an honor to be here on behalf of the 55 unions and 12.5 million members of the AFL-CIO to talk about how to win progress for America’s … For anyone unfamiliar, this is not a celebration. It’s a reminder that for a woman to earn as much as a man, she has to work a full year, plus an extra 100 days, all the way to April 4. For women of color, it’s even longer. The pay gap between … more fairly. Now it would seem that the Bill of Rights—with its freedoms of speech and assembly—affords every worker the right to bargain with their employer. But that is not how the system works in practice. The law today only requires employers …