Trumka blasts politicians for giving up on workers (corrected video from earlier this week too)

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http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4735

By Mark Gruenberg
23 January 2011

WASHINGTON - Many politicians in both major parties have given up on the country, workers and creating jobs, AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka says – but the labor movement hasn’t.

In a wide-ranging speech at the National Press Club on Jan. 19, the federation leader challenged those elected officials to work for jobs rather than for other narrow causes. He said that’s what workers and voters want.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMP8kSgkOjg&feature=player_embedded

And if the politicians won’t go out and create jobs, he added, the labor movement may well try to do so itself, as it now does with an experimental partnership with business and government in Los Angeles.


Richard Trumka

FULL story at link.

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