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Trumka Bids Farewell to National Labor College
… faculty, family, friends, past graduates and especially today’s graduates of the National Labor College, I am honored to congratulate you and celebrate your journey. Education is a funny thing, because there are so many ways we learn. School is one way. Work offers other ways. Everyday experiences add to your knowledge base, too. But something special happens when all three of … you. And let me give some advice—it's another thing my Dad always told me: Don't let anybody divide you. Fight for what's right. And fight twice as hard against what's wrong. Brothers and sisters, the working people of this country will take …