Speech
Trumka to Humphrey School of Public Affairs Students: America Does Better When We All Do Better
… to be with you. Also, I want to thank you, Kyle [Makarios] for your kind words of introduction, and for your role in the academic community here. In fact, you help make Minnesota a model for how education, working people and also businesses and economic thinkers can work together for the common good. And of course I must recognize Morrie Kleiner, who holds the prestigious AFL-CIO chair in labor policy here … You’ve got a good thing going on. We need there to be a lot going on. And by “we” I mean all working people in America, union, non-union, never-heard-of-union. By “we” I mean everyone whose life would change dramatically for the worse if we lost …