Topic: Richard Trumka
Quotes
We're going to use a lot of our money to build structures that work for working people
AFL-CIO: Less focus on Dems, more on jobs Aug 25, 2011
Our working-class people are looking for three things: jobs, jobs, jobs
AFL-CIO: Less focus on Dems, more on jobs Aug 25, 2011
You've turned the American economy into your own private casino, gambling away our financial future with our money, driving us to the brink of a second Great Depression, then sticking out your hand for taxpayers to bail you out
Union chief leads protest against bankers Oct 27, 2009
He understands what working people are going through and he really does listen and we really have a seat at the table
Unions demand more from White House Mar 03, 2010
I think he has been (focused). I think he has not effectively communicated it
Union leaders want Obama focused on jobs Sep 05, 2010
Richard Louis Trumka (born July 24, 1949) is an organized labor leader in the United States. He was elected President of the AFL-CIO on September 16, 2009, at the labor federation's convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, from 1995 to 2009, and prior to that was President of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to December 22, 1995.
Trumka, born in Nemacolin, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, is an Italian American, third-generation Polish American, Roman Catholic, coal miner son of Frank Richard and Eola Elizabeth (Bertugli) Trumka. He went to work in the mines in 1968. He received a bachelor of science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1971 and a law degree from Villanova University in 1974. He married Barbara Vidovich in 1982. They have one son.
From 1974 to 1979, Trumka was a staff attorney with the United Mine Workers at their headquarters in Washington, D.C. He was elected to the board of directors of UMWA District 4 in 1981 and became President of the United Mine Workers in 1982.
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