Speech
Trumka to United Steelworkers: Power and Hope are Rising
… Thank you, Brother Leo [Gerard] , for that kind introduction. Thank you for inviting me to your convention. It’s good to be here with this important, ground-breaking, and powerful union. This is truly, as your … teachers like Rebecca Taksel make up a majority of university faculty in the United States—about 75%. And those teachers work hard. Rebecca gives her students a quality education. Rebecca told me she sometimes asks herself, “Why am I doing this?” … Here’s why I’m telling you this: The biggest story in America is the great wealth divide, and what we’re doing to make it right. That’s the new story in America! People everywhere are starting to understand themselves as workers. People all across …