Speech
Trumka Lays Out Comprehensive Raising Wages Agenda
… First, I want to thank Labor Secretary Tom Perez for opening the Summit today. His leadership at the Department, his commitment to workers, … build our nation’s future, or to protect their own backsides with caution and corporate cash. So we are here on January 7, right at the start of the New Year, to declare a Raising Wages agenda. Its elements are contained in the comprehensive policy … stood together to increase minimum wages. Business leaders raised their voices with workers to create reasonable work schedules. And on and on. We have to make it happen. We have to organize around a common purpose. That’s what Raising …