Speech
Redmond to GLU: Racial Justice Is Economic Justice
… AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond delivered the following opening remarks virtually as prepared to a Global Labor University Conference discussion on racial justice and the American labor movement: Hello, everyone. I’m … Anner and Jana Silverman and the entire team at the Center for Global Workers’ Rights at Penn State University for all the work that went into bringing this conference to life. Thank you for bringing us together. I’m glad to have the opportunity to … jobs of today, and the jobs of tomorrow. There are a couple of bills currently sitting in Congress — the Protecting the Right to Organize Act and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act — that will go a long way in strengthening our ability …