Speech
Richard L. Trumka Acceptance Speech at the AFL-CIO 2017 Convention
… Thank you. I’m humbled and honored. First, I want to thank Lee Saunders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for nominating me, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and my own president and brother from the coalfields, Cecil Roberts, president of the … the mines and into unionism, but from my mother I got my passion and fighting spirit. My family is my foundation, but my union gave me purpose, and a path. Jock Yablonski led the movement called Miners for Democracy back in the 1960s when I was …