Richard Trumka

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Person.png Richard Trumka  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(labor leader)
Richard Trumka.jpg
Born24 July 1949
Died5 August 2021 (Age 72)
Cause of death
heart attack
NationalityUS
Alma materPennsylvania State University, Villanova University
ReligionCatholic
Member ofPresident's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Solidarity Center
Victim ofpremature death?
US union leader who died a week after supporting mandatory vaccination as president of the AFL-CIO.

Employment.png AFL-CIO/President

In office
2009 - 5 August 2021
Died reportedly of a heart attack a week after supporting mandatory covid-19 vaccines

Richard Louis Trumka was an American attorney and organized labor leader. He served as president of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to 1995, and then was secretary-general of the AFL–CIO from 1995 to 2009. He was elected president of the AFL–CIO on September 16, 2009, at the federation's convention in Pittsburgh, and served in that position until his death.[1][2]

Death

Trumka died a week after supporting mandatory vaccination as president of the AFL-CIO.[3]

On July 1, 2022, the White House announced that Trumka would be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[4]

Family

Trumka married Barbara (nee Vidovich) in 1982. They had one son,[5] Richard Trumka, Jr., whom President Joe Biden appointed in 2021 to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Trumka was a Roman Catholic.[6]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/201126 January 201130 January 2011World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2230 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201225 January 201229 January 2012World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2113 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.


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