Speech
Trumka to Metal Trades: Inequality is Not Inevitable
… Thank you, Brother Jimmy (Hart) for that introduction. I appreciate your friendship and your leadership. It is great to be here in Las Vegas. The Metal Trades has a proud history. Since you were first chartered in 1908, you have been lifting … possible when working people stand together for a better life. Today, that better life is under attack. The corporate right-wing wants to ship our jobs overseas. They want to lower our wages. They want to take away our health care and … tax policies. Through outsourcing and other corporate schemes. Through free market fanaticism that rewards wealth over work. That’s why we had a Great Recession where Main Street was forced to bailout Wall Street. That’s why wages are flat even …