Speech
Trumka: We Will Prove We Can Use Technology for Good, Not Greed
… AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks about the future of work and the labor movement at the Battle of Homestead Foundation's annual meeting: Good evening. Thank you, Rosemary Trump … a force for good. But technology is also creating extreme economic uncertainty and anxiety. Technology has been exploited to exacerbate inequality. It’s a matter of who develops it and who has access. Are workers involved in shaping it? Is there … we are in a union or hope to be. Make no mistake: we will not shape 21st century technology with 20th century labor laws. Right now, America's labor movement has a generational opportunity. It's called the PRO Act—the Protecting the Right to …