Speech
Trumka at the Joe Rauh Lecture: Anything is Possible When Working People Stand Together
… of Columbia Law School's Annual Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture: Good evening. Dean Hutchins, thank you for the invitation to speak tonight. It’s a great honor for me to be here. Chip, my brother, thank you. We go back a long time. If it wasn’t … you first need to help people.” It was a message about fairness, dignity and justice for all. When it was time to go to work, I followed my father and grandfather into the mines. That’s what Trumka men did. I also went to college at Penn State … of one individual. Thirty-seven years ago, on Christmas week at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia, I raised my right hand and took the oath of office as president of the United Mine Workers. I was 33. It was one of the greatest days of …