Watch Trumka Live Tonight at Harvard Event on Workers and the Economy
Tonight at 8 p.m. EST, you can watch a live webcast of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka with an audience of students, academics and union activists at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
During the online presentation, Trumka will share the frustration and anger of working people trying to survive in a fractured U.S. economy that is 11 million jobs in the hole. He also will talk about how the forces of hatred in this country are trying to convert justifiable anger about a failed economy into racist and homophobic hate and violence—and how they must be countered with a strong progressive tradition that includes working people in action, organizing unions and organizing to elect public officials committed to bold action to address economic suffering.
Sweeney: ‘Working People Want Action on Creating New Jobs’
The nation’s political leaders have a choice: They can strike out on a new economic course for America that will turn around the nation’s economy or they can give in to political paralysis and yield to the demands of the financial and corporate elites.
Speaking Friday before a Harvard University study group on “Working Class Revolt,” AFL-CIO President Emeritus and Harvard Fellow John Sweeney and AFL-CIO Policy Director Damon Silvers said policymakers failed to heed the union movement’s warnings against a campaign of radical federal deregulation and corporate empowerment—one that celebrated private greed over public service.
