Richard Trumka Barred From Entering the New York Stock Exchange
April 29, 2010 at 9:02 AM 1 comment
I was watching “Squawk Box” on CNBC this morning at 8:13 a.m. ET. Becky Quick, the co-anchor of the show, was signing off to go to a commercial while teasing an upcoming interview with Richard Trumka, the President of the AFL-CIO. Quick said Trumka wasn’t allowed inside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) so he would be interviewed outside the building. The topic of discussion would be the AFL-CIO’s march on Wall Street set for this afternoon.
I guess I’m naive but I was shocked when I heard that. Where would the businesses listed on the NYSE be without their workers? Yet a man who represents workers is seen as such a pariah that he is literally barred from the building? Wow. Does that ever speak to the divide between the haves and the have-nots in this country.
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