AFL-CIO Trumka July 2008 : HELL YES Working People Angry on Economy

AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka (now President) on working people's anger, America's unwieldy economy (before the crash!), and why we need to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). From Steelworkers Convention July 1, 2008. Full speech at http://www.usw.org/multimedia/video

UPDATE: President Trumka was named by Esquire Magazine' as one of 100 Americans of the 2011. http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2011/richard-trumka-1211

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[FrancescoK]

"The truth is that what's good for Wall Street has been a nightmare for the rest of us living back on Main Street."

Richard Trumka, JULY 1ST (!) 2008

[raphaela3]

THIS is a GREAT GUY

[gabjoh]

So glad to have his support for Occupy Wall Street; welcome aboard!

[tlrpsu12]

@MrGaryboyd are you drunk?

[gaian2000]

This message is more relevant in 2011 than it was in 2008. I am mad as hell and I'm ready to take on Tea-Publicans who are destroying the middle class!

[mackbk718]

Just tough talk, unions still give money to the crooked politicians and get nothing for it.

[mjrcaliber]

Obama has destroyed the American economy! That's what we get for hiring a racist illegal alien!!!!

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Dont come back with your scare tactics, the current economic model is to maximize profits and keep the wealth pooled at the top and then keep the country and the middle class in debt. Then they have their soldiers hammer down wages, divide the work force and make people think its for their own good

NO MORE NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!

[FluxCapacitor2008]

I know that an organized work force scars the hell out of you 3% guys or you $250k and up guys. Companies that move overseas should be taxed to hell and companies that stay in the US should have vary low taxes. If companies move overseas for the cheep labor the items that they send back to the states should be taxed to hell.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

The bottom line is the majority of the people are sick of the top 3% controlling the economic and political landscape for personal gain. The middle class majority will keep organizing and we will keep targeting the senators and congress men that do not conform to the will of the majority.

[slopmaster1]

Fuck unions!Fuck the UAW.

[snappa52]

Obama did it with his bailout too. Clinton passed NAFTA and GAT. Al Gore went before the UAW and said that NAFTA and GAT was working! the nerve of the democrats! why dont we create a real labor party brothers and sisters? a constitution/labor party is in the best interest of working men and women of america. shake off the stockholm syndrome