Speech
Trumka at AFL-CIO Civil and Human Rights Conference: Give Us the Ballot
… after him...those who carry forward the torch he lit. This year, one of those leaders is very much on our minds. I want to take a moment this morning to send our best wishes to America’s greatest living civil rights hero, the conscience of the … unions. That’s why Dr. King sacrificed his life marching for those sanitation workers in Memphis. That’s why he exposed right to work as a false slogan designed to “rob us of our civil rights and job rights.” And that's why—more than ever before—we must …