mr. trumka, i'm going to try to do something to gain common ground with you.e're usually regarded as the investment network, in an interview over the weekend, you said capitalism wasn't delivering the goods for labor. labor people are part of the investor class. don't you have an incentive to have a healthy business with healthy profits for stocks as well as labor? >> oh, yeah. >> labor and capital working together, sir? >> absolutely, and that's what we'd like to do, but we took a trillion-dollar hit because these guys. they walked away with billions in wages, we walked away with losses. we walked away with 2 trillion in debt. they've got to come to their senses. they're right back at it. more bonuses. we want to see real regulation of the financial economy. we want to see a financial transaction tax that converts short termism to the real economy and long-termism. >> you said you want to change the way you do business as a union. >> absolutely. >> how? >> first of all, we're dwoing going to reach out to young people and we're going to try to change our model

mr. trumka to join us. thank you. i'm david madland, the director of the american workerroject. i'm thrilled to have rich here. >> thank you. >> very good to see you. i'm going to moderate a discussion with the audience but as the@@@8@p@p@p@p@p"' sort of drive the economy and to talk about a major strategy of doing that as to focus on young workers and you leave out sort of your vision for attracting youngorkers, but was a higher level. i was wondering if you could go more into debt. tell us how you're going to target younger workers for the new strategies to do that. thank you. >> first of all we going to bring young workers into the labor movement. we have lost touch with the generation. you are seeing them pay the pricrighnow so we are going to invite a group of ung workers, union and nonunion into the af0 so we can begin to communicate with one another. i really want t know when i say something what they hear and i want to know that when they say something i am understanding what they want me to understand and i think we have not done that so the first step is to bring them

mr. trumka to join us. thank you. i'm david madland, the director of the american worker project.i'm thrilled to have rich here. >> thank you. >> very good to see you. i'm going to moderate a discussion with the audience but as the moderator i'm going to take the opportunity to ask the first question. >> okay. >> you know, you talked -- you mentioned the importance of the labor movement, how it needs to grow and have strgth to be able to represent more workers to have the power so that workers have better wages and sort of drive the economy. and you talked about a major strategy of doing that is to focus on young workers. and you laid out sort of your vision for attracting young workers, but it was at a higher level. can you go many in depth. how are you going to target young workers? are there new strategies to do that? >> first of all, we are going to bring younger workers into the labor movement. we have lost touch with the generation and over the last ten years you are seeing them pay the price. we are going to invite a group of young workers, union and no i really want to kno

mr. trumka to join us. thank you. i'm david madland, the director of the american worker project.i'm thrilled to have rich here. >> thank you. >> very good to see you. i'm going to moderate a discussion with the audience but as the moderator i'm going to take the opportunity to ask the first question. >> okay. >> you know, you talked -- you mentioned the importance of the labor movement, how it needs to grow and have strength to be able to represent more workers to have the power so that workers have better wages and sort of drive the economy. and you talked about a major strategy of doing that is to focus on young workers. and you laid out sort of your vision for attracting young workers, but it was at a higher level. can you go many in depth. how are you going to target young workers? are there new strategies to do that? >> first of all, we are going to bring younger workers into the labor movement. we have lost touch with the generation and over the last ten years you are seeing them pay the price. we are going to invite a group of young workers, union and nonunion to the afl-c