by Doug Cunningham on January 11, 2010 - 4:04pm
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka had plenty to say about making the economy work for working people when he took the podium Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. So much, in fact, that he ran over the allotted time. When they tried to cut him off, though, Trumka wasn’t about to let workers voices be curtailed so easily.
Trumka told the National Press Club audience that a disastrous decade for workers economically - topped off by the Great Recession - demands much more than the usual fixes for cyclical recessions.
Trumka: “This is not a portrait of a cyclical recession, but of a nation with profound, unaddressed structural economic problems on a long-term, downward slide.”
Trumka says workers and their unions built up a strong middle class over several decades, but…
Trumka: “A generation of destructive, greed-driven economic polices has eroded that progress and now threatens our very identity as a nation.”
Trumka called for a major re-booting of our economy to address the under-investment in America’s economic foundation and to create an economy that works for working people. And that includes a serious and quick jobs creation package from Congress.
Trumka met Monday with President Obama on health care reform and at the National Press Club he reiterated that the Senate version of health care reform is not worth the support of working people. And Trumka had this to say at the National Press Club on the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform.
Trumka: “I think you’ll see the Employee Free Choice Act passed in the first quarter of 2010. You’ll see it have some real effect. We will start creating and making good jobs in this country again.”
source: Workers Independent News
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