Speech
Trumka to IBEW: Political Independence Critical
… Thank you, Jim [Ross], for your kind introduction and also for inviting me to speak here with all of you. We are gathered together at a critical moment for the IBEW, for the AFL-CIO and the entire … the stupid games of the Republican leadership… and yet we can’t tune them out, because we’re the ones who always get hurt. Right now, House Speaker John Boehner is trying to score a political victory while the federal workers who make America run … not stand down. Sisters and brothers… friends… at the end of the day, our job is simply to make the lives of people who work better. I think about the regular people all over this country who get up and do a job… who take care of their kids… and …