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- Title
Richard L. Trumka: A Labor Leader in Troubled Times.
- Authors
Martin, Lou
- Abstract
Under his leadership, the AFL-CIO won back some Change to Win unions, and membership grew by some 10 percent, from 11 million to 12.5 million.[16] When President Barack Obama spoke at the AFL-CIO convention, it seemed that the time was right for a dramatic turnaround, but daunting challenges emerged. Footnotes 1 Obituaries include [13]; [18]; and [7] 2 United Mine Workers of America, "UMWA Mourns the Loss of UMWA President Emeritus Richard Trumka", press release, August 5, 2021, https://umwa.org/news-media/press/umwa-mourns-the-loss-of-umwa-president-emeritus-richard-trumka/. With the membership increasingly frustrated by UMWA president Sam Church's negotiating, Trumka ran for president, declaring "no backward steps", and won by a two-to-one margin. The AFL-CIO continued to fight rearguard battles, especially at the state level.[17] Trumka will likely be remembered as an AFL-CIO president who took progressive public stances on some of the nation's most pressing issues.
- Subjects
POWER (Social sciences); COAL miners; BLACK Lives Matter movement; LABOR union members; RACISM
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 2, p8
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-9576765