Labor & Employment Law

Trumka?s Speech on Immigration Available Now in Video Excerpts

By James Parks

Now available: three video excerpts of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka?s June 18 speech on immigration before the City Club of Cleveland. Check them out at the AFL-CIO YouTube page here.

During the speech, Trumka made the case that the United States needs a new economic strategy to replace the failed model of the past 30 years?one that focuses on developing a workforce with world-class skills and world-class rights and trade policies that serve the interests of the American people.

The video clip here is an edited version of the speech with highlights.

Click here to hear Trumka warn that when a nation’s political leaders truly lead and develop a plan to lift all people, the “voices of hate will grow stronger and feed on the public?s anger, pain and desperation.?

In another clip here, he calls for us to be true to our better selves and make the American Dream real for all of us.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).