AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote obama in 2008. Excerpt of speech given at Steelworkers convention July 1, 2008, sponsored by USW President Leo Gerard. FABULOUS! Entire speech at http://www.usw.org/multimedia/video
Mr. Trumka formerly served as president of the United Mine Workers of America.
UPDATE: On February 6, 2009 Mr. Trumka was appointed to The White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board, to be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker.
IF THIS VIDEO WON’T LOAD CLICK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QIGJTHdH50&fmt=18
Duration : 0:7:41
(more…)
Technorati Tags: Afl Cio, african-american, black, campaign, democrat, Democratic, election, labor, mineworker, mineworkers, obama, political, politics, president, presidential, race, Racism, speech, Steelworkers, sweeney, Trumka, umwa, union, unions, usw, vote, voting