Speech
Trumka to OPCMIA Convention: Our Economy Doesn't Work When Work Doesn't Pay
… And thank you for inviting me to your convention. I’m honored to join you here. Thank you! Pat, you’re a good union man. And I’m proud to call you my brother. And let me tell you how much I admire your union, your members bring … and plaster work and all of your trades. It’s hard work, physically taxing and complicated, but your training is top-of-the-line, and your members earn good pay because first of all, you deliver a quality product every single day, and, just as … veterans build good careers, and I thank you for that. I’ve heard it said—and I believe it’s true—that soldiers fresh from the Civil War joined the ranks of the National Plasters’ Union back in 1864, to learn a skilled trade and to build a better …