This pro-Obama speech by current CIO president Richard Trumka is beyond inspiring – it’s history, and the present, and the future.
Richard Trumka on race, unions, & Obama
It’s the kind of speech that came out of the era when Unions were King.
Sometimes I hear stuff like this and I think they still are.
I’ve been a member of the IATSE, local 600 International Cinematographers for (Jeszuz!) 35 years. Unions fight within themselves like cats and dogs, but look out when we have a common enemy or a common goal…They’re maddening as hell sometimes but in a big convention like that you definitely feel the energy of democracy…