Undocumented workers need legal rights

In his widely-circulated June 18, 2010 speech to the City Club of Cleveland, Richard Trumka says our economic strategy must ensure all of us will “have a fair shake.” Richard Trumka:

In a global economy in the 21st century, the United States cannot afford to have millions of hard-working people without legal protections, shut off from economic gain—and that means we must face head-on our own contradictions, hypocrisy and history on immigration,

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Richard L. Trumka is president of the AFL-CIO and former president of the United Mine Workers of America.