The Philip Murray Memorial Labor Lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations and United Steelworkers that brings a distinguished representative of the labor movement to Penn State each year. The lecture promotes the exchange of ideas between the University community–students, faculty, and staff—and leadership in the labor movement. The goal of this interchange is to contribute to a better understanding of the important role the labor movement has played, and continues to play, in a democratic society.