Labor & Employment Law

Watch Trumka Live Tonight at Harvard Event on Workers and the Economy

By Mike Hall

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. 

Trumka will discuss the AFL-CIO’s campaign to mobilize working families for change, such as the recent nationwide Good Jobs Now, Make Wall Street Pay rallies and our upcoming April 29 mobilization on Wall Street. 

To view a live webcast of the speech, visit www.iop.harvard.edu.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).