Speech
Trumka to Alaska AFL-CIO Delegates: We're Taking Back Our Country
… Alaska. Let me tell you something, Alaska is a beautiful place. I’ll be honest, I love my job, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world—but I wouldn’t mind having an office up here. I have a ridiculously good time in Alaska, and not just when I’m out … bringing me back. I’ve got some good stuff to talk to you about. I want to thank you and congratulate you for being one of the few state federations of labor to successfully endorse, fight for and work with Democratic and Republican leaders. That’s … index the wage to inflation. But I’d also encourage you all to look a step further to think about how solidarity, how a union on the job, could lift Alaska’s workers that much more. I’d like each and everyone here to think hard about the people …